KristopherĀ Overholt
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKristopher Overholt is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google with 19 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning data science, fire protection engineering, and developer advocacy. He blends deep academic training (Ph.D. in Civil Engineering) with hands-on engineeringācontributing to scientific Fortran-based fire simulators at NIST while also improving usability and installability for Python data tools like dask and s3fs. Known for teaching and enabling others, he crafts technical content, demos, and documentation that bridge research-grade simulation work and modern data workflows in Python and R. His background in productionizing scientific code, automating releases, and refining documentation makes him unusually effective at translating complex modeling and parallel-computing topics into practical developer-facing solutions.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Ph.D., Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinM.S., Fire Protection Engineering, M.S., Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteB.S., Fire Protection Engineering Technology, B.S., Fire Protection Engineering Technology at University of Houston-Downtown
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Github Skills (37)
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conda10
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automation10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
firemodels/exp
May 2007 - Jan 2015
Fire Research Division Experimental Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1639 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kristopher's primary contributions involve modifying and extending the functionality of the FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) source code. Their work includes fixing issues related to aerosol deposition, specifically the implementation of gravitational settling, thermophoretic deposition, and turbulent deposition. They also introduced features, such as the option to disable gravitational settling at the ceiling. Further, they focused on refining the aerosol deposition routines, improving their readability.
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firemodels/fds
May 2007 - Jan 2015
Fire Dynamics Simulator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1639 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kristopher primarily focused on improving the FDS application, a fire simulation software. Their contributions included implementing a ceiling jet temperature correlation routine and modifying existing routines to better calculate values such as temperature. The user also added functionality to handle outputs for various cases, expanding the application's capabilities. The majority of their work involved modifications to the core code, with the main focus being on the scientific calculations within the tool.
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