Mikołaj Kowalik
Research Software Engineer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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SeniorMikołaj Kowalik is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying computational physics and numerical methods to real-world problems, currently working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He brings deep High Performance Computing expertise and a passion for Python, ANSI C, and GNU/Linux cultivated across academic and industry roles from postdoctoral research at Penn State to R&D in material handling. His background includes co-developing tools for automating chemical synthesis discovery and discovering novel hard-core models with unusual elastic properties, reflecting strength at the intersection of theory and practical software. Comfortable moving between research code and production-grade systems, he has repeatedly translated complex scientific problems into scalable, performant implementations. Based in State College, PA, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering discipline, often preferring low-level, efficient solutions over boilerplate abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (36)
astronomy10
fixed-point10
qbcore-framework10
python9
data-management9
handoff9
floating9
angle9
data-access9
camera9
batch9
batch-processing8
pipeline-framework8
floating-point8
htcondor7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mxk62/clawspeek
Jul 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 years 8 months
lsst/ctrl_bps
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
A PipelineTask execution framework for multi-node processing for the LSST Batch Production Service (BPS).
Contributions:185 reviews, 209 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years 2 months
lsstpythonmulti-nodebatchpipeline-framework
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