Patrick O'leary
Assistant Director Of Scientific Computing at Kitware Inc.
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick O'Leary is an applied mathematician and scientific computing leader with over a decade of experience bridging high-performance computing, numerical analysis, and visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and a postdoctoral appointment from Texas A&M, and has led research, academic, and operational teams across national labs, universities, and computing consortia. As Assistant Director of Scientific Computing at Kitware he runs the Santa Fe office and contributes hands-on to open-source visualization work, including front-end enhancements to the widely used vtk-js toolkit. His background spans building and managing HPC centers (WestGrid, INL) and developing numerical models for complex physical systems, such as stochastic groundwater contaminant transport. Colleagues rely on him for translating rigorous mathematical methods into scalable software and immersive visualization tools. He brings a rare blend of academic depth, operational leadership, and practical open-source engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mathematics; Applied Mathematics, Ph.D, Mathematics; Applied Mathematics at University of WyomingPost-doctoral, Mathematics; Applied Mathematics, Post-doctoral, Mathematics; Applied Mathematics at Texas A&M UniversityB.S, Mathematics, B.S, Mathematics at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (9)
html10
uid10
javascript10
visualization10
vtk-js10
visualizations10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
3d10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/vtk-js
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Visualization Toolkit for the Web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 days
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the CubeSource and ArrowSource examples within the vtk-js repository. Their work included implementing interactive UI elements and controls using HTML, JavaScript, and associated range inputs. They also addressed functional issues, such as incorrect rotation calculations and clipping problems, and added the ability to control the direction of the ArrowSource.
visualization
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