Xavier Andrade
Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolXavier Andrade is a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with 20 years of experience at the intersection of condensed matter physics, computational chemistry, and scientific software development. He specializes in optimizing and parallelizing numerically intensive codes, turning complex physical models into high-performance, scalable implementations used in national-lab research. His academic path—PhD from Universidad del País Vasco and earlier degrees from Universidad de Chile—feeds a rigorous, simulation-first approach developed through postdoctoral work at Harvard and a visiting stint at École Polytechnique. Based in Livermore, California, he bridges deep theoretical insight and practical engineering, often focusing on performance bottlenecks that are invisible to domain scientists. Colleagues value his ability to translate research needs into robust, production-ready code and to accelerate workflows through parallel computing strategies.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Universidad de ChileDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (31)
simulation10
dft10
mpi10
theory10
materials-informatics10
dynamics10
exchange-correlation-functionals10
configurations10
cpp10
molecular-simulation9
density-functional-theory9
python9
linux9
hpc9
windows9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
octopus/octopus
Jul 2005 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5644 commits, 5270 pushes, 2534 branches in 14 years 2 months
xavierandrade/fortrancl
Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
FortranCL: a Fortran 90 interface for OpenCL
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.