Tom Fredian
Retired at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Littleton, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolTom Fredian is a retired systems programmer with 28 years of experience building data acquisition and analysis software for fusion energy research, best known for developing MDS and MDSplus used worldwide. With a background in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon and earlier process-control work at DuPont, he combines deep system-software design skills with fluency in C, C++, Java, Python, Fortran, Matlab/IDL and multiple databases. He spent nearly four decades at MIT supporting experimental campaigns, architecting reliable, high-throughput pipelines for complex scientific instrumentation. Quietly prolific in bridging lab needs and production-quality tooling, he has a track record of turning experimental requirements into globally adopted open frameworks. Now based in Littleton, New Hampshire, he brings rare domain expertise at the intersection of experimental physics and robust software engineering.
28 years of coding experience
47 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (25)
data-management10
fusion10
data-processing10
data-visualization10
alexa-skills-kit7
html6
factor6
firefox6
node-red6
factor-authentication6
docker6
javascript6
html5-canvas6
ssh5
hue5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tfredian/mdsplus
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
The MDSplus data management system
Contributions:103 pushes, 131 branches in 1 year 5 months
management-systemdata-managementmdsplus
MDSplus/mdsplus
Apr 1998 - Dec 2019
The MDSplus data management system
Contributions:684 releases, 7576 commits, 1499 PRs in 22 years
management-systemdata-managementdata-processingfusiondata-visualization
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