Matt Mitchell
Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Mitchell is a mechanical engineer and numerical analyst with 11 years of experience applying simulation, testing, and practical design to advanced building systems and energy research. Currently an engineer at NREL, he combines hands-on mechanical design and FEA experience from national labs with software skills as a back-end developer and test automation engineer on the widely used EnergyPlus building energy simulation project. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a track record of removing legacy code and improving unit testing in large open-source scientific software, reflecting a rare blend of domain expertise and software craftsmanship. Based in Littleton, Colorado, Matt excels at turning complex thermal and fluid problems into reliable, testable models used in real-world construction and research settings.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma State UniversityBrigham Young University-Idaho
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
maintenance10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
code-cleanup10
refactor9
refactoring9
build-automation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/EnergyPlus
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 releases, 182 reviews, 2164 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the code by removing obsolete features from the project, particularly those related to the FluidProperties module. They were also responsible for merging in the develop branch with the intention to remove the ObjexxFCL bit functions from specific modules, and ensuring the code passed unit testing. This included the creation of a new unit test for the UtilityRoutines, demonstrating expertise in testing and code maintenance within the EnergyPlus project.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
mitchute/GLHE
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 62 PRs in 16 days
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