Alan Tackett
Technical Director For The Advanced Computing Center For Research And Education
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Tackett is a technical director and research professor with 13+ years leading high-performance computing and large-scale distributed storage at Vanderbilt’s ACCRE, where he grew infrastructure from 110 processors to over 15,000 cores and 35+ PB of storage. He designs and operates multi-petabyte systems with sustained data flows exceeding 200 Gbits/s, oversaw campus and external 100Gb/s networking, and manages daily and monthly petabyte-scale data transfers. Trained as a physicist with advanced computer science credentials (PhD and MS), he blends deep research experience—published work in software-defined networking and distributed storage—with hands-on systems engineering. Alan’s career uniquely spans academic research and production-scale infrastructure, enabling reproducible scientific computation at extreme scale. He’s based in Nashville and known for translating complex scientific requirements into resilient, high-throughput operational platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Computer Science at Henderson State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Wake Forest University
Github Skills (9)
data-storage10
fault10
fault-tolerant10
storage9
kafka8
big-data7
distributed-systems7
filesystem7
distributed-database6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
accre/lstore-ibp
Jul 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
accre/lstore-lio
Jul 2012 - Sep 2016
Contributions:471 commits, 9 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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