Michael Schmidt
Senior Member Of Technical Staff--Computational Science Research
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schmidt is a computational scientist and senior technical staffer with nine years of experience developing and scaling numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly stochastic Lagrangian particle-tracking techniques for reactive transport in porous media. He combines rigorous theoretical research from his PhD with HPC-aware algorithm engineering, enabling modeling of more complex hydrogeological systems and improving computational performance. At Sandia and earlier national lab internships, he translated research into robust, testable code—contributing backend fixes and unit-test improvements to the well-known OpenFAST wind-turbine project. Based in Denver, he blends academic depth with production-grade software practices, and his work often bridges mathematical proof, numerical stability, and pragmatic error-handling in large simulation codes.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Colorado School of MinesBachelor of Science (B.S.), Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Business Management - Entrepreneurship Focus, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Business Management - Entrepreneurship Focus at Miami UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Summa Cum Laude, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Summa Cum Laude, Applied Mathematics at Metropolitan State University of Denver
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
aero10
fortran10
elastic10
elasticity10
lapack9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenFAST/openfast
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Main repository for the NREL-supported OpenFAST whole-turbine and FAST.Farm wind farm simulation codes.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 2 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the backend of the OpenFAST wind turbine simulation code, making changes to the BeamDyn and NWTC_LAPACK modules. Their work involved adding checks for the validity of rotation matrices, fixing typos, and incorporating error handling to improve the robustness of the code. Furthermore, the user updated and refined existing test scripts to provide more informative outputs.
windsupportedaeroelasticitysimulationwind-power
mjs271/ArcticForest-Dark
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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