Jamil Appa
Co-Founder And Director at Zenotech Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamil Appa is a co-founder and director with 13 years of experience building and commercialising high-performance computational engineering software for HPC and GPU cloud environments. He blends deep domain expertise in aerodynamics and CFD with hands-on technical leadership across mesh generation, CAD/PDM/CAE pipelines, parallel and cluster computing. A proficient developer in C++, Fortran, Java, MPI and CUDA, he’s delivered production-grade simulation and visualization tools that scale on Unix clusters and modern GPU infrastructures. Based in Bristol, he pairs an MSc in Aerodynamics from Cranfield with practical startup experience, translating research-grade codes into commercial HPC services and consultancy. Jamil’s background implies a strong ability to bridge aerodynamic theory and software engineering, often optimizing algorithms for performance on heterogeneous hardware. He thrives at the intersection of engineering science and scalable software, leading teams to turn complex simulations into deployable products.
14 years of coding experience
BEng, Aeronautics/Astronautics, BEng, Aeronautics/Astronautics at University of SouthamptonShoreham CollegeSaint Esprit MauritiusMSc, Aerodynamics, MSc, Aerodynamics at Cranfield University
English, French
Github Skills (57)
hpc-cluster10
scrutinizer10
gridengine10
lsf10
slurm9
python9
paraview9
gpu9
hpc8
nvidia8
iterative8
openfoam7
shared-memory6
cmake6
infiniband6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jappa/VizStack
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 10 months
zenotech/AMGX
Apr 2018 - Jan 2026
Distributed multigrid linear solver library on GPU
Contributions:6 reviews, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 7 years 10 months
cudamultigridsolver-librarygpu-accelerationmpi
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