Miguel De Troya
Head Of Software Engineering at Corintis
Berkeley, California, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel De Troya is a Head of Software Engineering based in Berkeley with 11 years of experience designing algorithms and HPC tools to automate industrial engineering design. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Mechanical Engineering—with hands-on C++ and Python development, having built large-scale topology optimization frameworks, adaptive mesh refinement, and a Python level-set library for industrial applications. At Lawrence Livermore he translated research into validated hardware and web tooling, and now leads software efforts at Corintis to automate microfluidic cooling and thermal systems. An active contributor to the mfem finite element library, he’s comfortable modifying core numerical estimators and integrating coefficient-aware flux calculations. Known for pairing numerical methods with practical manufacturing workflows, he brings both simulation-to-experiment experience and production-grade engineering practices to complex multiphysics problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Universidad de GranadaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
el10
c-language10
f10
cprogramming-language10
computational-science10
scientific-computing9
hpc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mfem/mfem
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the `mfem` library by modifying the ZienkiewiczZhu error estimator, a core component related to finite element methods. Their work focused on enhancing the estimator's functionality, including adding a flag to consider coefficients in flux calculations. These changes involved modifying header and source files to incorporate a `with_coeff` flag and introducing a setter function. The user also made syntax adjustments and documentation improvements related to the same area of the code.
c-plus-plusfinitefemamrc-library
LLNL/pyMMAopt
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 65 commits, 28 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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