Sam Gutierrez
Fellow, Systems Engineering at ManTech
New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gutierrez is a systems engineering fellow with 16 years in defense and space, specializing in directed energy, high-power microwave, and weapons systems integration while supporting JDETO and DARPA TTO. He combines hands-on flight test engineering for manned and unmanned air systems with program and project leadership, underpinned by flight test training from USN Test Pilot School and the National Test Pilot School. A dual EE graduate (BSEE, MSEE with signal processing/industrial engineering), Sam brings deep test-and-measurement expertise, formal explosive training, and an active TS/SCI INDOC clearance. His career spans technical roles at AFRL to senior systems leadership at ManTech, often bridging laboratory research to operational transition. He also contributes to open-source HPC tooling—helping Spack and Open MPI improve package management and shared-memory components—an uncommon cross-over between defense hardware and scientific software. Based in New Mexico, he pairs rigorous technical depth with practical flight experience as a pilot and test engineer.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of New Mexico School of EngineeringMaster's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at New Mexico State UniversityAvionics Flight Test Training Course, Avionics Flight Test Training Course at National Test Pilot SchoolFlight Test Engineering, Unmanned Air Systems Short Course, Flight Test Engineering, Unmanned Air Systems Short Course at United States Navy - Test Pilot SchoolShort Course IR missiles and Countermeasures, IR missile systems, Short Course IR missiles and Countermeasures, IR missile systems at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAir War College, Strategic Studies, Air War College, Strategic Studies at USAF Air Command and Staff College
Github Skills (17)
package-management10
mpi10
hpc10
c-programming10
c1110
autotools10
c1710
shared-memory10
c-language9
python9
cprogramming-language9
build-tools9
scientific-computing8
fortran8
linux7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
open-mpi/ompi
Sep 2009 - Jun 2021
Open MPI main development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 92 commits, 4 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Open MPI project by fixing typos in code comments, addressing potential segfaults in error paths, and adding a new shared memory component using System V (sysv). The contributions reflect a focus on improving the stability and functionality of the shared memory layer within the Open MPI framework. The user also removed some semicolons in the code.
mpicluster-computingfortranopenmpipetsc
spack/spack
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the Spack package manager by modifying package definitions, primarily focusing on scientific computing libraries. Their work included updating package metadata like URLs, descriptions, and version information for libraries such as libquo and libfabric. They added new versions and features, and refactored dependency declarations to support more flexible build configurations. Further contributions added a new package for a project called Quo-Vadis and updated the default versions of existing packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
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