Philip Sakievich
Build Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Sakievich is a build engineer and HPC software developer with 11 years of experience applying scientific computing, thermal and fluid simulation expertise to scale applications on leading supercomputers. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a track record at Sandia National Laboratories contributing to DOE exascale projects like Exawind while improving developer workflows, build automation, and package management. An active contributor to the widely used Spack package manager, he focuses on compiler fixes, dependency management, and testing infrastructure that keep complex scientific stacks reproducible and performant. Now at Susquehanna International Group, he blends deep numerical modeling knowledge with pragmatic engineering to make code run faster and more reliably in production HPC environments. Outside of work he’s an avid rock climber who brings the same obsession for incremental improvement and problem solving to both climbing routes and build systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (11)
build-system10
cmake10
package-management10
python10
package10
build-automation10
scientific-computing9
hpc8
cprogramming-language7
git7
c-language7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:408 reviews, 37 commits, 160 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributes to the build and package management system, Spack, for scientific computing. Their work includes fixing compiler issues, particularly related to Intel compilers and specific software packages like Paraview, VTK, and Trilinos, by implementing workarounds and adding appropriate flags. The user also adds testing infrastructure for packages like Nalu-Wind and improves the handling of environment views, along with fixing bugs and adding features to the build system's core functionality. Furthermore, their contributions extend to the Exawind project by updating and managing dependencies.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
gantech/exawind_fsi
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
Input files and data for HFM FY23 Q1 milestone
Contributions:8 reviews, 13 PRs, 45 pushes in 8 months
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