Tanim Islam
Design Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolTanim Islam is a Design Physicist with 13 years of experience applying physics and software engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, following earlier software work for NASA’s air traffic research on the FACET tool. He combines a rigorous academic background—Caltech BS in Physics, MIT studies in plasma physics, and a PhD in astrophysics from UVA—with hands-on development of research-grade simulation and analysis tools. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and implementation, he has a track record of turning complex physical models into practical software used in national laboratory settings. His career includes international research experience at Ecole Normale Supérieure and a history of collaborating under multidisciplinary teams and government contracts. Colleagues know him for quiet persistence and a wry sense of humor—he once noted he plans to photograph himself “praying to his computer” in his office. Based in Livermore, CA, he brings deep domain knowledge and a pragmatic engineering approach to challenging scientific problems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
middle schooldoctorate, astrophysics, doctorate, astrophysics at University of VirginiaEcole normale supérieureplasma physics, plasma physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technologybachelor's of science, physics, bachelor's of science, physics at California Institute of Technologyhigh school diploma, high school diploma at Maggie Walker High School
French, Bengali
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Github Skills (135)
proxy10
transmission10
plex10
torrent10
api10
media10
indexer10
npr10
token-based-authentication9
rss9
jackett9
simulations9
yaml9
pyside9
google-music9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tanimislam/tanim-emacs
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
tanimislam/howdy
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
This is a collection of tools, and APIs, to access media within my Plex server.
Contributions:7 releases, 4907 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years 2 months
plex-serverplex
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