Ryan Mulhall is a software testing and code management professional with eight years of technical experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. As a Software Testing Associate at SAIC, he manages the FMS scientific software library used in large-scale climate models, overseeing its GitHub repository, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization while modernizing legacy code. He contributes hands-on to bug fixes and larger rewrites and maintains package definitions in prominent open-source projects like spack/spack, demonstrating deep familiarity with build systems and package management. Based in the New York City area, Ryan blends operational rigor with developer empathy to keep critical research tooling reliable and performant. A detail-oriented collaborator, he pairs practical systems work with a background in user-facing IT support and process-driven internships.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Package Maintainer
Contributions:9 reviews, 3 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` repository by modifying package definitions. Their work focused on adding and updating versions of the "fms" package, a component related to the Finite-difference Global Model (FMS) from the NOAA-GFDL project. They integrated new versions and also exposed more CMake build options, demonstrating a solid understanding of package management and build systems. The user's contributions involved making modifications to the package's configuration file, including adding checksums and dependencies, and handling version updates.
Tools for manipulating and creating netCDF inputs for FMS managed models
Contributions:5 PRs, 220 pushes, 42 branches in 4 years 6 months
netcdffms
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