Kevin Chu
Software Engineer at Rescale
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Chu is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building compute infrastructure for scientists and engineers. He holds a PhD in Materials Sciences from Georgia Tech and has bridged academic research and industry work at national labs, startups, and engineering firms. Kevin focuses on scaling compute platforms and scientific software, bringing domain expertise from roles at Rescale, Science, and Mat3ra.com. His background in materials engineering and hands-on research at Sandia and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory gives him an unusual blend of deep scientific rigor and production-grade engineering. At Rescale he continues to translate complex simulation workloads into reliable, scalable infrastructure. Outside work he maintains an active GitHub presence under kchu-rescale, signaling ongoing engagement with tooling and reproducible research workflows.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Sciences at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Materials Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (71)
continuum9
simulation-modeling8
materials-informatics8
density-functional-theory7
density-estimation7
relationship7
simulations7
jupyter-notebook7
converting6
csv6
julia6
api6
python6
concurrent6
jupyter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kvnchv/lammps
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Contributions:22 PRs, 59 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
lammps
kvnchv/pyconvertor
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
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