Pradipta Samanta
Research Software Engineer at Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPradipta Samanta is a Research Software Engineer at the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum with 13 years’ experience combining scientific software development, HPC optimization, and GPU acceleration for advanced climate and weather models. He holds a PhD in Chemistry and spent 4+ years as a research scientist developing high-accuracy electronic structure methods—skills that inform his robust algorithm design and low-level performance tuning in Fortran, Python, and C++. His background in multireference and quantum Monte Carlo methods gives him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical implementation experience applied now to climate computing at scale. Pradipta is comfortable bridging research and production: implementing complex numerical methods in scientific codebases and profiling them for modern hardware. Outside work he explores machine learning, economics, and finance, and plays guitar, reflecting a curiosity that fuels cross-disciplinary problem solving. Based in Berlin, he’s open to collaborations in HPC, scientific software, and computational research.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry at University of StuttgartBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of CalcuttaGithub contributions (5)
pradiptasam/fortify
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
pradiptasam/dotfiles
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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