About

I am the Chief Technology Officer and HPC Engineer at Data in Science Technologies, where I manage a highly experienced team of HPC Compute and Storage engineers.

I started my journey in High Performance Computing while completing my Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. There, I started developing massively parallelized Finite-Element analysis software for loosely-coupled physics solutions, running this software on the now decommisioned supercomputer Kraken.

After graduating I decided to pursue a career in HPC and landed in the scientific computing group at Savannah River National Laboratory. I then spent the next 6 years at SRNL becoming familiar with many aspects of the HPC stack, developed experience in developing Python software. By the time I left in the summer of 2020, I was the Scientific Applications Development lead and started a PhD program in Computer and Information Science at University of Arkansas Little Rock.

6 months after coming to DST I stepped in as the interim Engineering Director, and shortly afterwards became the CTO and Engineer Manager at DST. My goals have been to streamline our HPC operations via documentation, configuration management, automation, monitoring, and security best practices to produce leadership compute facility services at any scale.

I have started this blog in an attempt to document some of my work in HPC.

Feel free to reach out to me via email at contact@kail.io or reach out to me via DM on Mastodon