Summary
Julia Sloan is a Senior Software Engineer and research-focused developer at Caltech specializing in building coupling software and component models for a next-generation Earth System Model. With five years of experience, she leads development of ClimaCoupler.jl and has driven cross-team integration, workshop teaching, and GPU- and MPI-optimized PDE work for climate applications. A Caltech CS graduate, she pairs a strong theoretical foundation in algorithms and systems with practical fluency in Julia, C/C++, Python, OCaml and functional programming. Julia’s background spans storage systems, bio and economics research, and tutoring, reflecting an uncommon blend of domain breadth and deep technical rigor. Motivated by applying software to climate change, she excels at translating complex scientific models into efficient, reproducible code and enabling collaborators to run and interpret large-scale experiments.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Advanced Math and Science Academy
California Institute of Technology
Spanish, Turkish, English