Matt Watkins
Senior Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Watkins is a multidisciplinary engineering professional with eight years of experience building high-performance simulation software and advanced FEA tools for aerospace and defense. He blends mechanical engineering expertise—especially fatigue, fracture mechanics, and residual stress—with production-grade software development in C++, C#, and MATLAB to deliver fast, reliable analysis workflows and 3D visualizations. At Boeing and ESRD he led large-scale system redesigns and performance wins, including multi-threaded solver optimizations (23x–1400x), a results cache that reduced repeat simulation time to milliseconds, and a thread-safe priority queue for constrained worker licensing. He has a track record of turning deep numerical research into practical tools, from deriving a novel tetrahedral mapping solution to winning SBIR funding for surface-treatment optimization that translated to validated hardware results. Comfortable across backend APIs, DevOps, and interactive UIs, he also holds a PE license and has taught finite element methods at the university level. Based in Laurel, MD, Matt combines hands-on coding with domain-first problem solving to shrink runtimes, improve accuracy, and make complex simulations usable for engineers.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Master's Degree, Aerospace Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (17)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
particle5
simulation4
simulator4
hydrodynamics4
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics3
javascript3
browser3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mjwatkins2/WebGL-SPH
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Liquid Simulation in Your Web Browser
Contributions:21 commits, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
particlebrowserjavascriptliquidsimulation
mjwatkins2/backupsync
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 5 days
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