Thomas Economon
Director Of Engineering And Founding Engineer at Luminary Cloud
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Economon is a software and engineering leader with 15 years of experience bridging high-performance scientific computing and product-driven startups, currently serving as Director of Engineering and a founding engineer at Luminary Cloud. He holds a PhD and MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford and a BS from Notre Dame, and his research background centers on CFD, adjoint-based optimal shape design, and HPC. As a co-founder and maintainer of the widely used open-source SU2 multiphysics suite, he combines deep numerical methods expertise with pragmatic systems architecture and back-end development. His contributions to SU2 include bug fixes, memory and performance optimizations, and completing critical infrastructure features—work that reveals both detailed code fluency and long-term stewardship. Previously a senior research scientist at Bosch and a Stanford postdoc, he excels at turning research-grade algorithms into robust, production-ready software. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution, often surfacing subtle performance and scalability improvements that materially improve simulation workflows.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Notre DameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
su2code/SU2
Jul 2013 - Jun 2020
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 1867 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Thomas appears to have primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the SU2 CFD software. The contributions range from addressing specific bugs in core modules like conductivity models to improving the overall system by implementing memory leak fixes and performance optimizations. The developer also worked on critical infrastructure changes, such as a complete implementation of a previously unfinished feature, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the project’s codebase and architecture.
physicsmultiphysics-simulationpythoncfdsnl-applications
su2code/TestCases
Jun 2014 - Nov 2019
Test cases for SU2
Contributions:14 releases, 116 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 6 months
casestestingsu2test-casestypescript
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