Nicolas Lopez
Senior Engineer - Electrical Systems at Applied Concepts, Inc.
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Lopez is a Senior Engineer specializing in electrical systems with a decade of experience building mission-critical software and hardware for aerospace and meteorological applications. He cut his teeth as a scientific programmer for NASA Goddard on the GOES-16 satellite and later wrote C++ systems for Boeing's next-generation aircraft, bringing rigorous engineering practices to embedded and simulation projects. As founder of AscensionWx he designs low-cost radiosondes and ground sensors to expand weather and climate data collection in West Africa and other developing regions, blending field hardware with machine learning for remote sensing. His open-source work includes contributions to the high-performance Kokkos C++ ecosystem, improving execution-space initialization and portability in a widely used HPC library. Comfortable moving between numerical climate modeling, avionics software, and hands-on sensor development, he pairs academic training in computational science and meteorology with practical deployment experience. Based in Dallas, he quietly combines deep scientific computing chops with entrepreneurial product building to deliver measurable environmental insights.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Science at Florida State University
Github Skills (8)
cpp10
cplus10
k10
scientific-computing9
accelerated-computing9
parallel-computing9
high-performance9
cluster-computing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kokkos/kokkos
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Ecosystem: The Programming Model - Parallel Execution and Memory Abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:368 reviews, 91 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas focused on modifying and improving the initialization and configuration of execution spaces within the Kokkos library. They made derived execution space initializers final, fixed typos related to printing execution space names, and refactored the initialization and finalization functions. The user also added formatting and addressed copy-paste errors to improve the codebase's consistency. These changes point to a developer working on the core performance and portability aspects of the library.
memorympic-plus-plusmulti-threadingkokkos
kokkos/kokkos-resilience
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Resilience Extensions for Kokkos
Contributions:28 reviews, 25 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 11 months
extensionsresiliencekokkos
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