Michael Heroux
Research Scientist at ParaTools, Inc and St. John's University
Avon, Minnesota, United States
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RockstarMichael Heroux is a Senior Research Scientist with 24 years of experience focused on high-performance computing and scientific software. Based in Avon, Minnesota, he combines industry research work at ParaTools with an academic-facing role as Scientist in Residence at St. John’s, bridging applied HPC engineering and research collaboration. His career emphasizes building and optimizing scientific software for parallel systems, and he’s known for marrying deep technical expertise with practical performance-driven solutions. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex computational challenges into maintainable code and reproducible workflows. Despite a long research pedigree, he remains hands-on and passionate about advancing HPC tooling and community practices.
24 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
Collegeville/CW3S19
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
2019 Collegeville Workshop on Sustainable Scientific Software
Contributions:188 commits, 60 PRs, 183 pushes in 5 months
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CSE-Software/Howto
Jul 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years 3 months
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