Nicholas Reinicke
Research Engineer - Computational Science
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Reinicke is a research engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with eight years of experience bridging software engineering, mechanical engineering, and data science to solve computational science problems. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and a BS in Architectural Engineering, a combination that informs his pragmatic approach to modeling, simulation, and engineering software. At NREL he moved from transportation analysis intern to a research software role, delivering reproducible tooling and data-driven analyses for energy applications. Nicholas is active on GitHub as nreinicke and brings practical industry experience from ME Engineers and early software internships, making him comfortable translating domain requirements into scalable research code. He’s equally fluent in engineering rigs and codebases, often leveraging cross-disciplinary techniques that non-obviously accelerate model validation and deployment.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Architectural Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Architectural Engineering at University of WyomingUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
cpython10
python10
forge10
cffi10
mapping-tools10
pypy10
geography10
spatial10
mobility10
overpass-api10
geopandas10
osmnx10
matching10
map-matching10
wheels10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/gradeit
Nov 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 15 PRs in 2 years 7 months
NREL/routee-powertrain
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
RouteE-Powertrain is a tool for predicting energy usage over a set of road links.
Contributions:8 releases, 13 reviews, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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