Timothy Kelley
Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Kelley is a physicist-turned-software engineer with 15+ years at Los Alamos National Laboratory developing high-performance scientific software and multiphysics simulations on distributed parallel platforms. He specializes in performance-aware programming—C/C++, MPI, pthreads, Python—and has a track record of leveraging emerging architectures (Cell, GPU, Roadrunner) to extract substantial performance gains for computational science. His work spans algorithm development and production-grade implementation, including Monte Carlo methods and object-oriented design for scalable simulation codes. Having transitioned from a senior postdoc role at Caltech to long-term technical staff at LANL, he blends deep domain knowledge in physics with practical expertise in parallel systems. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to translate research-grade algorithms into optimized, portable code that runs efficiently on heterogeneous supercomputing hardware.
15 years of coding experience
Ph. D., Physics, Ph. D., Physics at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (40)
clang-tidy10
transport10
refactoring10
cinch10
static-analysis9
neutrino9
cluster-computing9
topology9
radiation9
diffraction9
code-analysis9
hpc-applications9
monte-carlo9
cpp9
hydrodynamics8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lanl/McPhD
Mar 2011 - Apr 2019
Contributions:214 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
lanl/CoARCT
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
Code Analysis and Refactoring with Clang Tools
Contributions:280 commits, 4 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 years 11 months
compilerscodegenerationcppclang-tidyclang
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