Vicente Bolea
Senior Research And Development Engineer at Kitware Inc.
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVicente Bolea is a senior R&D engineer with 15 years of software experience and 12 years dedicated to building and maintaining open-source HPC software used on the world’s fastest supercomputers. As tech lead and release engineer for ECP ADIOS2 and a core developer on VTK, ParaView and VTK-m at Kitware, he combines deep C/C++ and systems programming expertise with hands-on deployment experience on Frontier, Summit and Crusher. An experienced OSS packager and maintainer across Spack, OpenSUSE, PyPI and Conda, he routinely updates and integrates scientific packages to keep HPC stacks production-ready. A global citizen who has lived and worked across Korea, the US, Germany and Spain, he brings cross-cultural collaboration and research-driven rigor to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences Engineering, Computer Sciences Engineering at Unversidad de CadizMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Spanish, English, Korean
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
package-management10
paraview10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
scientific-computing10
python9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
build-tools9
qt8
api7
windows-gui7
apidoc7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:180 reviews, 32 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vicente primarily contributes to the `spack/spack` repository by modifying package definitions. Their work focuses on updating existing packages and adding new releases for software such as VTK-m, ParaView, and ADIOS2. The changes include updating versions, adding new releases, and occasionally modifying the package configuration to incorporate new features and address dependencies. The contributions demonstrate a strong focus on the scientific computing domain, by maintaining and integrating packages for scientific software.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
Kitware/ParaView
May 2020 - Nov 2022
VTK-based Data Analysis and Visualization Application
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vicente primarily refactored the server manager, removing a specific plotting plugin and making minor code changes. The user also added a HD resolution for preview mode, and worked on fixes related to camera settings, text source modifications, and fixes vert alignment and issues with focus in dialogs. The user's changes focused on improving the UI and functionality of the visualization application, with adjustments to code and settings.
data-analysisvisualization-applicationdata-visualizationopen-sciencescientific-visualization
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