Tamara Dahlgren
Computer Scientist Senior Member Of The Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolTamara Dahlgren is a seasoned computer scientist with 15 years of professional experience and a long-standing technical career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she serves as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis and a strong academic foundation in computer science and mathematics, bringing both research rigor and practical engineering to large-scale scientific computing. Tamara contributes to open-source tooling—notably improving build environments, install/revert workflows, and test diagnostics in the widely used spack package manager—demonstrating a focus on reliable, reproducible software delivery. Based in Livermore, California, she pairs deep back-end and DevOps expertise with a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex build and deployment issues across diverse platforms. Colleagues rely on her for clear failure analysis and pragmatic solutions that improve developer productivity and system robustness.
15 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of California, DavisB.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics at California State University, StanislausCalifornia State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (5)
build-automation10
cicd10
testing10
devops9
python9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 9165 reviews, 221 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tamara's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the build environment and improving the output messages for the installation process. They improved the stand-alone testing by providing the information on failures, and added options like `install` and `revert` to the build cache commands. The user also provided solutions to resolve the problems, as well as, improving the quality of the code.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
tldahlgren/spack
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:1 review, 577 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 7 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerdarwinconfigurations
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