Samuel Skillman
Senior Systems And Solutions Architect, High Performance Computing at Google
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Skillman is a Senior Systems and Solutions Architect at Google Cloud with 17 years of experience building high-performance computing and large-scale data analytics platforms. He blends a PhD in Astrophysics and postdoctoral research at Stanford/SLAC with hands-on engineering leadership, having led the team that built Descartes Labs' petascale Earth observation analysis platform. Comfortable across cloud architecture, HPC, storage, and visualization, he has also run his own consulting practice and designed storage solutions at Citadel. An active computational scientist, he contributes to the yt open-source project, adding astrophysics-specific analysis fields and flux integration utilities. Based in Santa Fe, he brings rare domain depth—turning complex scientific models into production-grade, cloud-native systems that scale.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Harvey Mudd CollegePh.D., Astrophysics, Ph.D., Astrophysics at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (3)
scientific-computing10
python10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Jun 2009 - Oct 2015
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:785 commits, 2 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's primary contribution appears to be the addition of a function for calculating star formation rate from an existing data structure. The user added fields to the internal data objects, wrote functions for integrating a spectrum and measuring flux, and included functionalities to save results to a text file. Their contributions mainly involve the creation of new fields and analyses using the existing data, utilizing their understanding of the codebase and the dataset.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
samskillman/cluster-toolkit
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Cloud HPC Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Contributions:75 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 5 months
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