Vladimir Ivannikov
Research Development Software Engineer at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolVladimir Ivannikov is a research development software engineer and C++ specialist with nine years of experience building high-performance multiphysics simulation codes for HPC environments. He designs and implements scalable finite element and discrete/phase-field methods, having optimized distributed-memory solvers to run on up to 50k–100k MPI processes and tuned performance across Intel and AMD architectures. Vladimir combines numerical-method expertise (FEM, DEM, matrix-free formulations) with practical software engineering—modular architecture, testing (Google Test), and parallelism (MPI, OpenMP, pthreads)—to deliver robust, testable codes. His background spans academia and industry, from PhD-level computational mechanics work to commercial rotor-dynamics solvers and university lecturing, which helps him translate advanced algorithms into production-ready, maintainable software. Notably, he has hands-on experience profiling and vectorizing code for different hardware, an often-overlooked skill that materially improves large-scale simulation throughput.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Applied Mechanics, with honors, Engineer, Applied Mechanics, with honors at Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, with distinction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, with distinction at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Russian, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (38)
parallel-computing10
scientific-computing10
computational-science9
simulation9
simulation-framework9
hpc9
multiphysics9
amr8
yii2-extension8
3d-models8
trilinos8
geodesy8
gravity8
parallel8
geoscience8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vovannikov/hpsint
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Matrix-free phase-field applications
Contributions:375 pushes, 211 branches in 3 years 4 months
vovannikov/dealii
Dec 2022 - Jun 2026
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library.
Contributions:45 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 7 months
dealfinite
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