Tristan Milnthorp
Director, Research & Development at Milnthorp Capital, LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTristan Milnthorp is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over eight years of experience building scalable R&D organizations and production platforms in the engineering simulation space. Currently Director of Research & Development at Synopsys and founder of Milnthorp Capital, he combines hands-on software architecture experience from a long tenure at Ansys with strategic leadership and entrepreneurial ventures. Tristan’s technical depth includes pragmatic contributions to open-source engineering tooling—adding units and conversions to the widely used UnitsNet library—showing attention to correctness and test coverage. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends product-minded systems thinking with a background in web design, photography, and small-business ownership, bringing a creative, multidisciplinary perspective to technical problems. Known for growing teams and platforms rather than just shipping features, he focuses on sustainable engineering practices that scale with business needs.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Peters Township High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
c-library10
csharp10
dotnet-library10
unit-conversion10
c-libraries10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
angularsen/UnitsNet
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 58 reviews, 195 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily contributed to the implementation of new units and functionalities within the UnitsNet library. Their work involved adding new units for heat flux, thermal conductivity, and electric current density. They also focused on incorporating associated unit conversion logic, including test cases to validate these new additions and ensure code functionality. Additionally, the user improved existing code by adding better test coverage and fixes.
unit-converterunitmeasurementbitmeasure
tmilnthorp/UnitsNet
Apr 2018 - Nov 2023
Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
Contributions:308 pushes, 139 branches, 7 tags in 5 years 7 months
unitsmeasurementbitlifeunits-of-measurement
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.