Sarah Osborn
Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarSarah Osborn is a Research Scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building and tuning scientific software and systems. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory she focuses on back-end and systems engineering for high-performance computing workflows, contributing to complex package management and build integration. Her open-source work on the widely used Spack package manager—particularly enhancing the hypre package with Umpire support and resolving CUDA/ROCm build issues—shows deep expertise in cross-platform compilation and dependency configuration. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic solutions that bridge research code and production-grade deployment, and she brings a hands-on knack for untangling thorny build environments that often block HPC reproducibility.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
build-tools10
hpc10
package-management10
cprogramming-language9
roc9
c-language9
cuda9
scientific-computing8
python8
mpi7
openmp7
fortran6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 4 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed to the hypre package within the spack package manager, primarily focusing on adding new features and variants, such as Umpire support. They updated the package definition by incorporating new versions and resolving conflicts. The user also addressed issues related to ROCm integration and CUDA support, modifying configuration arguments and environment variables within the build process.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
osborn9/Egret
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Tools for building power systems optimization problems
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
problemsoptimizationpowerpower-systems
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