Tyler Olsen
Researcher at Investment firm
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Olsen is a researcher and computational engineer with 11 years of experience applying numerical methods to real-world problems across finance, energy storage, and biomedical devices. He holds advanced degrees from MIT and has developed continuum models for granular suspensions, implemented many-rigid-body dynamics simulations, and built GPU-accelerated finite element solvers in modern C++. Currently at an investment firm, he brings a quantitative research background that includes predictive modeling for trading strategies and variance forecasting. Tyler pairs deep academic training with hands-on production coding—his open-source work is available on GitHub—and often bridges algorithm development with practical software architecture for high-performance computing. A less obvious strength is his breadth across domains, from sterile vaccine manufacturing process tools to surgical device testing, which gives him unusual perspective when translating complex physics into robust, deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S.E, Mechanical Engineering, B.S.E, Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (11)
physics-engine10
modeling9
dynamics9
robotics9
simulations9
simulation9
c-library8
physics8
high-performance7
multiphysics7
cpp7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tjolsen/YAFEL
Jul 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:171 commits, 414 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 2 months
tjolsen/tmpl
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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