Timothy Fuller
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at University of Utah, Dept Mechanical Engineering
Bountiful, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Fuller is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience applying computational mechanics and software engineering to national-security and aerospace problems. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah, he blends deep numerical modeling and research expertise with hands-on build and backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Spack package manager improving build processes, namespace handling, and extension loading. At Sandia National Laboratories he has progressed from research-focused roles to technical leadership, while also teaching computational mechanics as an adjunct professor. His background spans academia, national labs, and industry (Orbital ATK), giving him a pragmatic approach to turning complex physics and simulation requirements into deployable software. Colleagues rely on him for robust build tooling and reproducible scientific workflows that scale across platforms and compilers.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
git10
build-tools10
python10
package-management10
scientific-computing9
package-manager9
linux8
configuration-management8
build-automation8
hpc7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Build Engineer
Backend Developer & Build EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 5 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by enhancing its functionality and improving its build processes. Their work involved implementing features related to namespace handling in directory layouts, modifying library search behavior, and improving the handling of git submodules. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to variant initialization and introduced the ability to load Spack extensions through Python entry points.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
tjfulle/Local
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:238 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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