Summary
Matthew O'connell is a Research Software Engineer at NASA Langley with 11 years of experience applying scientific rigor to high-performance CFD and mesh-generation software. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Engineering and blends deep domain knowledge in elliptic mesh smoothing, error estimation, and geometry manipulation with practical HPC engineering—having developed tooling like a performance tracing package and explored in-memory checkpointing. Based in Hampton, VA, Matthew has a track record of taking research ideas from graduate studies into production research code for aeroacoustics and moving-body simulations. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable proving numerical theory and optimizing parallel implementations, and he often surfaces practical software practices that improve reproducibility and performance in large-scale simulations.
12 years of coding experience