Sung Bae
Specialist Scientific Programmer at Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE
Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSung Bae is a Specialist Scientific Programmer with a PhD in computer science and 12 years of experience bridging research and production software for high-performance computing. He leads the software team at QuakeCoRE, driving large-scale earthquake simulations across New Zealand’s faults and operating on top-tier supercomputers like NeSI’s Maui, TACC Stampede2, and KISTI Nurion. His background spans industry and academia—from porting simulation workflows for Korean earthquake studies to building Docker-based platforms that democratize HPC for teams without local resources. Comfortable as both an architect and people manager, he combines deep algorithm and performance optimization skills with a pragmatic, scrum-style delivery approach. Notably, his team’s optimized workflows have enabled thousands of future-earthquake simulations and accessible analysis tools used by researchers and practitioners. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he excels at turning complex computational challenges into usable, resilient software for seismic science.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of CanterburyB.Eng, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, B.Eng, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (61)
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data-science9
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python9
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data-visualization9
docker8
mapping-tools8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
QuakeCW/quakecw_workflow
Apr 2022 - Jan 2024
CWNU Earthquake Research Group's Adaptation of QuakeCoRE NZ workflow
Contributions:2 PRs, 173 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
pythonearthquakebashadaptationresearch-group
ucgmsim/velocity_modelling
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Next-gen velocity modeling tools
Contributions:41 reviews, 1 PR, 190 pushes in 10 months
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