Summary
Ravindra Shinde is a computational physicist and software-driven research scientist with 11+ years of experience, currently based at the University of Twente and founder of The Science Dev portal. He builds high-performance scientific codes in Python, Fortran, and C++, having ported and optimized applications across top supercomputers (Fugaku, LUMI, Leonardo, Juwels, Snellius) achieving exceptional CPU utilization. His research blends quantum chemistry and materials science (QMC, TDDFT) with practical engineering—refactoring legacy Fortran, enabling GPU portability, and shipping Python packages and CI/CD pipelines for reproducible science. An author of 16 papers and a book, he also translates complex research into concise cover stories to broaden impact. Notably, he has secured major compute grants and implemented production-ready build and packaging systems that underpin collaborative scientific workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 88.52 %, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 88.52 % at Shivaji University
English, Marathi, German