Zhixuan C
Senior Software Developer at Schonfeld
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhixuan C is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing computational and CAE software, currently contributing at Schonfeld after senior roles at Ansys. He combines deep numerical analysis and applied mathematics (SPH, FEM, hyperbolic PDEs, UQ) with pragmatic software engineering—designing parallel SDKs, boosting Fluent I/O performance up to 40x, and adding GPU and cloud-native capabilities. His background spans full software lifecycle work from physics modeling and numerical discretization to profiling, parallel performance tuning and production SDK support consumed across product lines. A PhD-trained computational scientist, he has repeatedly bridged academic research and commercial engineering, reengineering open-source tools into unified frameworks for automated UQ and batch HPC workflows. Colleagues rely on him for hard HPC questions and for translating complex multiphysics requirements into scalable, maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.89, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.89 at University at BuffaloBachelor’s Degree, Energy Science and Engineering, 3.94, Bachelor’s Degree, Energy Science and Engineering, 3.94 at Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
distributed-computing6
mpi6
infiniband5
cluster-computing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Plume-SPH/plume-sph
Jun 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:305 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
zhixuanc/JGR-ash
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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