Caitlin Ross
Staff Research & Development Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaitlin Ross is a Staff Research & Development Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance visualization and in situ analysis tools for large-scale simulations. Based in Minneapolis, she has advanced from PhD research at Rensselaer and DOE-supported work at Argonne to technical leadership at Kitware, specializing in VTK/ParaView-based data visualization and simulation instrumentation. Her notable open-source contributions include integrating the vtkFidesReader into ParaView’s Catalyst pipeline and extending its testing and integration surface, demonstrating a knack for making complex data workflows production-ready. Caitlin blends systems-level performance analysis with practical engineering—she has built instrumentation layers for PDES, animated 3D network visualizations, and real-time analysis tooling. Colleagues rely on her to tame segfaults and reduce technical debt while shipping features that scale to supercomputer-sized datasets. She pairs rigorous academic training with a playful hacker persona that surfaces in her creative GitHub presence.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
c-language10
vtk10
catalyst10
cprogramming-language10
cmake9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/ParaView
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
VTK-based Data Analysis and Visualization Application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Caitlin primarily contributed to the ParaView codebase, focusing on adding and integrating support for the vtkFidesReader. Their work included adding the necessary reader module, enabling its use within ParaView's Catalyst infrastructure, and incorporating it into the testing framework. The commits also reflect efforts to fix integration issues and updating the codebase to leverage the new Fides reader capabilities.
data-analysisvisualizationvtk
ROSS-org/RISA
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
ROSS In Situ Analysis
Contributions:1 PR, 114 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
rossin-situ
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