Raymond Menzel
Software Engineer at Entarian
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolRaymond Menzel is a Physical Scientist with over a decade of experience building and modernizing high-performance scientific software for atmospheric and geophysical fluid dynamics and radiative transfer. He has led development of global-scale line-by-line radiative transfer frameworks and replaced legacy radiation schemes in climate models with industry-leading correlated k-distribution methods, delivering results that reproduce satellite-measured spectral radiative trends. Comfortable across multiple programming languages and parallel CPU/GPU supercomputing environments, he also modernized MPI and netCDF libraries and implemented source control and CI practices for complex model codebases. Based in New Jersey, he blends deep physics training (PhD, RPI) with pragmatic engineering, actively pursuing novel computational algorithms to accelerate climate science. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of unifying disparate models and tooling under scalable interfaces, enabling collaborative, reproducible international research efforts.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Physics, Master of Science - MS Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (51)
geoscience10
climate-model10
fenics10
atmospheric-modelling10
planetary10
modeling-tool10
fortran10
climate-science10
petsc10
infrastructure10
driver10
physics10
finite-element-analysis10
hydrodynamics10
netcdf10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
menzel-r/GRTCODE
Dec 2019 - Feb 2025
a GPU Radiative Transfer Code. Fork of https://gitlab.com/geebdubya/GRTCODE
Contributions:24 pushes, 10 branches, 3 tags in 5 years 3 months
gpu
NOAA-GFDL/rte-rrtmgp
May 2020 - May 2024
RTE+RRTMGP is a set of codes for computing radiative fluxes in planetary atmospheres.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
planetaryfluxesatmospheressimulationrte
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