Truman Ellis
Developer at Temples of Refuge
Portugal
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Top SchoolTruman Ellis is a developer with 14 years of experience in scientific and engineering software, holding a Ph.D. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics and dual degrees in Aerospace Engineering. He specializes in advanced numerical methods for fluid simulations and multi-physics problems, has significant experience both running commercial CFD/CAE tools and authoring high-performance research codes in C++ and Python, and has contributed improvements to the widely used libMesh library to support Discontinuous Galerkin methods. At The Aerospace Corporation he modernized and validated mission-critical simulation and optimization tools, led small engineering teams, and refactored legacy code into parallel C++ and Python toolchains. His background spans solid mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer, and plasma physics, and he brings a keen interest in clean, elegant solutions, communication, and project management. Based in Portugal, he is now developing the Synchronicity Engine, blending technical rigor with a community-focused regenerative ecosystem—an unexpected bridge between high-performance simulation and socio-environmental systems design.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics, 3.92, Ph.D., Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics, 3.92 at The University of Texas at AustinCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
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Github Skills (7)
finite-element-analysis10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
numerical-methods10
architecture9
architectures9
cmake6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
libMesh/libmesh
Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
libMesh github repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Truman's commits primarily focused on enhancing the DiffSystem and FEMContext frameworks within the libMesh repository. They implemented features to incorporate neighbor information, which is crucial for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) simulations. The contributions also included fixes for boundary condition handling and numerical Jacobian calculations, and involved modifications to the configuration and build scripts. These improvements are aimed at supporting DG methods within libMesh.
golangfinite-element-analysisfemparallelfinite-element-methods
CamelliaDPG/Camellia
Apr 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:688 commits, 207 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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