Sean Ingimarson
Staff Engineer 1 at ARA
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Ingimarson is a Staff Engineer and applied mathematics PhD candidate with five years of experience building high-performance finite element software for fluid dynamics and mesh handling. He has contributed backend features to the prominent deal.II library—improving Gmsh mesh importing, handling inverted cells, and increasing storage robustness—alongside work on MPI I/O for VTK/HDF5 outputs. Combining academic research on Navier–Stokes conservation schemes with practical engineering at ARA and national labs, he bridges rigorous numerical analysis and production C++ implementation. Based in Raleigh, NC, he also has a track record mentoring and teaching large undergraduate courses, reflecting strong communication alongside deep technical skills. Notably, his work has preserved mass, accuracy, and bounds in high-order hydrodynamics remapping—demonstrating attention to both theory and reproducible, open-source tooling.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at Clemson UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
finite-element-analysis10
cpp10
cplus10
hdf9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dealii/dealii
Apr 2021 - May 2022
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the `dealii/dealii` repository, a finite element library written in C++, by adding new functionalities related to mesh generation and handling. They implemented features to load Gmsh files with inverted cells and made related improvements to the `grid_tools.h` and `grid_tools.cc` files. Furthermore, the user made modifications to data types to increase storage capacity and adjusted code to handle Gmsh material IDs and glossary edits.
dealmultiphysicsc-plus-pluscomputational-sciencefinite-elements
singima/dealii
Apr 2021 - May 2023
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library.
Contributions:143 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 1 month
dealfinite
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