Vishal Patel
Principal Engineer at Antares
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Patel is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and modeling nuclear reactors for space and terrestrial power and propulsion, currently based in Seattle. He helped revive interest in nuclear thermal propulsion by showing in 2014 that LEU fuel can match HEU performance and has since been a reactor physicist and thermal-hydraulics lead on nearly every major NASA NTP design. Vishal builds multi-physics simulation tools and automation—leading development of TRICORDER, contributing backend improvements to the widely used MOOSE framework, and integrating MC neutronics with UQ and coupled physics. He has led teams and programs as a chief engineer, developed algorithms for reactor optimization and decay-heat rejection, and managed QA for large-scale simulation campaigns. Known for translating complex physics into production-ready software, he blends hands-on coding (Python/C++) with domain expertise across government, national lab, and private-sector programs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science (M.S.), Nuclear Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University
Gujarati, English
Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
finite-element-analysis10
el10
c-language10
f10
object-oriented-programming10
cprogramming-language10
multiphysics9
parallel-computing8
amr6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vishal primarily contributed to the MOOSE framework by implementing and modifying core functionalities. Their work included fixing interpolation algorithms, adding spline interpolation capabilities, and refactoring code to align with coding style guidelines. They also updated the framework by making changes to fluid properties and nodal scalar kernels and added tests to show loading scalar vars from mesh, demonstrating expertise in the underlying simulation environment.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
veeshy/moose
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 6 months
pythonmultiphysicssimulationsimulation-environmentobject-oriented
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