Nathan Brei
Computer Scientist at Jefferson Lab
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Brei is a computer scientist with 13 years of experience building high-performance scientific software, currently focused on parallel event reconstruction for experimental nuclear physics at Jefferson Lab. He designs and optimizes modern C++ frameworks (C++11 threads, lock-free structures) for heterogeneous hardware and NUMA-aware performance while emphasizing software quality and maintainability. His background spans applied numerics, AI/ML, and earlier work engineering auditable rule-driven systems for financial regulation, where he built visual decision-audit tools and versioning for complex, time-varying logic. Educated at MIT and Technical University Munich, he blends rigorous computational engineering with hands-on design and fabrication from aerospace and hardware projects. Comfortable moving between low-level concurrency and higher-level systems, he brings a rare combination of scientific domain knowledge, practical engineering, and attention to reproducibility. An uncommonly tangible detail: he’s applied physical prototyping skills from UAV ground-station and composite-fiber experiments to software problems, informing pragmatic, testable designs.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering at Technical University MunichInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at International School of DüsseldorfRecurse Center
German
Github Skills (12)
detector10
multicore10
threaded10
podio9
collider8
python7
electron5
spack3
java2
json2
hierarchical1
data-model1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nathanwbrei/EICrecon
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
EIC Reconstruction - JANA based
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
JeffersonLab/JANA2
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Multi-threaded HENP Event Reconstruction
Contributions:18 releases, 19 reviews, 955 commits in 3 years 11 months
reconstructionmulticoremulti-threadedthreaded
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