Max Yang
Software Developer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Yang is a software developer with nine years of experience focused on high-performance scientific and HPC applications, currently contributing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He combines strong C++ back-end skills with practical systems work—examples include making mfem network components Windows-compatible and modernizing GLVis rendering for web/Jupyter use via Emscripten. His background spans physics-code development, serialization and data tracking for simulations, and research projects in machine learning and visualization from university labs. Based in Phoenix, he brings a pragmatic blend of research-driven problem solving and production-oriented engineering, often bridging legacy code and modern toolchains. Notably, he has delivered cross-platform interoperability improvements and authored tooling that eases interactive visualization of finite-element meshes.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.53 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.53 GPA at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Corona del Sol High School
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (13)
c-language10
ws-api10
winapi10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
wp-api10
cluster-computing8
accelerated-computing8
scientific-computing8
high-performance8
parallel-computing8
finite-element-analysis7
hpc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mfem/mfem
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 53 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving the codebase by adding Winsock initialization to the socketstream for Windows compatibility, which is crucial for network functionality. Their contributions involved adding, modifying, and reverting changes related to Winsock initialization, including the creation of a helper class. Additionally, the user performed code formatting using `astyle` and updated the project by merging in upstream changes.
c-plus-plusfinitefemamrc-library
GLVis/glvis
May 2018 - Aug 2022
Lightweight OpenGL tool for accurate and flexible finite element visualization
Contributions:71 reviews, 483 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 4 months
finiteflexibleradiussfinite-element-analysisdata-viz
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