Sarom Leang
Senior Computational Research Engineer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarom Leang is a Senior Computational Research Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in high-performance computing, scientific software engineering, and migrating legacy codes to next-generation architectures. He has led DoD and DOE projects as PI/Co-PI, securing nearly $2M in SBIR funding and driving measurable improvements such as a 250% increase in test coverage and 400% faster release cycles for exascale-ready molecular simulation software. Sarom combines deep domain expertise in quantum chemistry and GAMESS development with practical system engineering—containerization, CI/CD, and cloud migrations—to deliver secure, cost-effective HPC infrastructure (including an 85%+ reduction in monthly ops costs via Azure Gov Cloud). He’s comfortable translating between researchers and operators, having coordinated multi-institution development, code review, and modular runtime environments across compilers and libraries. Notably, his work blends hands-on kernel performance tuning on accelerators (GPUs, Xeon Phi) with product-minded cybersecurity practices, making him equally effective in research, engineering, and program leadership.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physical Chemistry at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry at George Mason University
English
Github Skills (39)
issue-tracking10
spdx8
render8
sarif8
benchmark7
cyclonedx7
static-analysis7
sbom7
benchmarking7
docker7
vulnerabilities6
sca6
atomic6
cli6
golang6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gms-bbg/performance
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
GAMESS Performance Benchmark
Contributions:81 commits, 6 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 month
benchmarkperformancebenchmarksbenchmarking
eip-mason/intro-python
Jul 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:120 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 8 months
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