Sierra Villarreal
Software Developer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSierra Villarreal is a software developer with 10 years of experience bridging astrophysics research and production-grade tooling, currently at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where she coordinates the Rubin Independent Data Access Center and builds campaign management tools. With a PhD in Physics and a background delivering end-to-end cosmological simulations at Argonne National Laboratory, she specializes in optimizing complex workflows for high-performance computing and scalable data pipelines. Her work supports the Rubin Observatory/LSST science stack, ensuring robust handling of systematics and enabling large survey campaigns to run reliably. Based in San Carlos, CA, she combines deep domain knowledge in astronomy and cosmology with practical software engineering to turn research requirements into operational systems. An understated strength is her ability to translate HPC-optimized simulation work into maintainable tools that serve both scientists and operational teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (47)
random-walk10
cosmology10
routines10
density-estimation10
dice9
minesweeper9
astrophysics9
multiprocessing8
discord-bot8
astronomy7
scripting7
galaxy7
data-management7
multicore7
parallel-python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
villarrealas/haloenviron-villarrealzentner
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:85 pushes, 2 branches, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
villarrealas/villarrealas.github.io
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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