Scott Kirklin
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolScott Kirklin is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience applying computational tools to solve complex scientific and engineering problems, currently working at Anthropic. He brings a rare blend of quantitative software engineering and materials-science research—authoring python frameworks for high-throughput DFT databases during a Northwestern PhD and later building model systems and quantitative trading infrastructure at Ghost Locomotion and Jump Trading. Scott focuses on creating powerful, flexible tooling that accelerates the human feedback loop for visualization and validation, enabling faster intuition and discovery. Based in Sacramento, he has hands-on experience across experimental apparatus automation, large-scale simulation data pipelines, and production model systems, bridging research rigor with production engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Physics at Kettering University
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Github Skills (20)
computational-materials-science10
pyav8
ffmpeg7
accumulo7
k8s7
batch-processing7
gitops6
cloud-native6
knative6
big-data6
machine-learning6
python6
kubernetes6
argo-workflows5
mlops5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skirklin/recipes
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
Firebase webapp for curating a personal recipe
Contributions:7 PRs, 65 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years
reactrecipefirebasetypescriptwebapp
wolverton-research-group/periodic-table-plotter
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 1 month
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