Wyatt Spear
Software Engineer at Paratools Inc.
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWyatt Spear is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on high-performance computing and performance analysis tooling, currently extending and supporting the TAU toolkit at Paratools and the University of Oregon. He combines deep build and dependency expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Spack package manager—with hands-on work porting and integrating performance tools across languages and IDEs. Comfortable in collaborative academic and industrial settings, Wyatt has a track record of improving build systems, packaging Python libraries, and tuning HPC applications for better efficiency. With an M.S. in Computer and Information Science and an affinity for translating research needs into robust software, he aims to advance science through pragmatic engineering solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of tooling-level automation skills and domain-focused performance analysis, which helps teams ship reproducible, high-performance experiments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer and Information Science, M.S., Computer and Information Science at University of Oregon
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:360 reviews, 35 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Wyatt primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by adding and updating package definitions for various Python libraries and tools, demonstrating a strong understanding of build processes and dependency management. They added new packages, updated existing ones with the latest versions, and fixed dependencies. Furthermore, the user demonstrated knowledge of the build system by modifying the package definitions and related files to ensure correct compilation and linking of dependencies.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
wspear/TestRepo
May 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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