Matthew O'connell
Research Software Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew 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.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Austin Peay State University
Github Skills (19)
json-parser10
json10
msgpack10
json-pointer10
cbor10
json-patch10
bson10
cpp10
messagepack10
json-serialization10
binding9
clang9
merge7
jenkins-api-plugin6
jenkins-plugin5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
T-infinity/T-infinity-docs
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:75 commits, 5 PRs, 70 pushes in 10 months
matthewOConnell/ucgo
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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