Peter Haugen
Engineering Section Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Haugen is an engineering leader with 20+ years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, serving as Chief Engineer for the $300M Nuclear Threat Reduction program and as Engineering Section Leader for a 70-person Systems Engineering section. He blends strategic program leadership and hands-on technical depth across RF multistatic sensing, wide/ultrawideband radar, NIR/VIS machine vision, embedded systems, and autonomous platforms. A lifelong learner with advanced degrees in computer and electrical engineering and extensive executive and technical coursework (Caltech, Georgetown, UC Davis), he stays technically current while mentoring mid-career and junior staff. Peter is known for balancing rapid adoption of AI and new tools with a nuanced view of their ethical and practical limits. His career traces from Georgia Tech Research Institute research engineering to long-term technical leadership at LLNL, reflecting both deep domain expertise and broad systems architecture experience. He brings a rare mix of program-scale accountability, day-to-day people leadership, and active technical stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (28)
climate-model10
atmosphere10
fortran10
energy10
climate-science10
earth10
renewable-energy10
snl-applications10
climate-change10
infrastructure10
exascale10
modeling10
hpc9
hydrodynamics9
grid5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PeterCaldwell/utils
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
E3SM-Project/scream
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Fork of E3SM used to develop exascale global atmosphere model written in C++ (aka SCREAM)
Contributions:1 release, 453 reviews, 39 commits in 2 years 5 months
atmosphere-modelclimateclimate-modelsnl-applicationsexascale
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