Zachary Meadows
Simulation Software Engineer
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Meadows is a Simulation Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in high-performance C++ and Python systems for simulation, modeling, and data-driven analysis. With a PhD in Physics, he has applied rigorous scientific methods to optimize algorithms—improving Kalman filter track-fitting for HL-LHC and leading analysis efforts on the ATLAS all-hadronic VH resonance search. He now focuses on simulation, active machine learning, and performance tuning in space and defense contexts, delivering maintainable, production-ready code and CI/CD-aware workflows. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends deep physics understanding with practical software engineering to squeeze performance from complex systems, often surfacing non-obvious optimization opportunities across algorithm and infrastructure layers.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Github Skills (16)
gui-application10
linux10
debugger-visualizer10
lldb9
developer-tools9
windows9
zig8
toolchain8
interpreter8
compiler7
programming-language7
vim1
coreutils1
tmux1
gnu1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zmeadows/qxc
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
zmeadows/feldspar
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:93 commits in 1 month
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