Ross Whitfield
Software Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Whitfield is a software engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 12 years of experience building research-focused scientific software, from diffuse scattering analysis tools to neutron data reduction pipelines for HFIR and SNS. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Australian National University and translates deep domain expertise in scattering experiments into robust, maintainable code and supercomputer workflows for fusion modelling. At ORNL he blends best-practice software engineering with hands-on research support, ensuring scientific reproducibility and scalable performance on HPC systems. Based in Mildura, Australia, he brings a rare combination of experimental physics insight and production software craftsmanship to multidisciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
Australian National University
Github Skills (74)
python10
ase10
muon10
co-simulation10
simulate10
simulations10
numpy10
reduction10
gitlab10
atomic10
simulation10
science9
family-tree9
gnome9
git-mirror9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rosswhitfield/IPS-framework
Aug 2020 - May 2024
Python framework for coupled HPC simulations
Contributions:538 pushes, 141 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythoncoupledsimulationssimulationpython-framework
rosswhitfield/RefRed
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Liquids Reflectometer Reduction
Contributions:66 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 5 months
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