WILDFIRE · SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Hephaestus
Scientific wildfire propagation and decision-support engine.
A modular wildfire simulation framework combining fire-behavior science, environmental rasters and API-driven execution to produce predictive fire-front outputs.
SimulationCrisis ResponseGIS & Spatial
Terrain & fuels
→Weather & wind
→Spread engine
→Spatial outputs
→Decision support
MY CONTRIBUTION
Architecture through operations.
Conceived the modular simulation architecture and implemented core backend and numerical components integrating Rothermel calculations, Huygens-style propagation, wind and slope effects, terrain and fuel rasters, meteorological inputs and asynchronous execution.
System DesignerBackend EngineerScientific Software Engineer
ENGINEERING HIGHLIGHTS
What the system required.
01Rothermel fire-spread modeling
02Huygens-style propagation
03DEM, fuel, canopy and weather rasters
04Arrival-time and isochrone outputs
05Scenario-based suppression analysis
06Distributed simulation jobs
WHY IT MATTERS
Transforms environmental datasets and wildfire science into predictive outputs for preparedness, evacuation planning and operational decision support.