Alja Tadel
Programmer at University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlja Tadel is a seasoned programmer with 12 years of experience specializing in high-performance scientific and visualization software, currently based at UC San Diego. She has deep domain expertise in particle-physics tooling and distributed data access, having contributed to CERN projects and implemented a production file-caching server for XRootD used on Open Science Grid. Her work spans both back-end systems (caching, protocol-level optimization, detector visualization fixes) and front-end visualization (ROOT/EVE web components), showing fluency across C++ and web UI layers. Notably, she refactored core XRootD caching and IO structures and helped evolve ROOT’s event visualization, blending low-level performance thinking with user-facing clarity.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Physics, Particle Physics, Bachelor's degree in Physics, Particle Physics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
English, sovenian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
caching10
cms10
filesystem10
javascript10
visualization10
c-language10
offline-web-app10
offline-app10
cprogramming-language10
visualizations10
webgl9
threejs9
memory-management9
document-root8
root-view8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Jan 2014 - Jun 2017
XRootD official repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 579 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alja primarily contributed to the XRootD repository by adding and modifying caching features. They implemented an XrdFileCache plugin, adding an XrdFileCache plugin to the xrootd build. They also changed the FileBlock class to an internal IOBlock structure, and refactored code to use context only for logging. Additionally, they made various renaming changes to adhere to xrootd naming conventions.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
cms-sw/cmssw
Jul 2013 - May 2022
CMS Offline Software
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 704 commits, 131 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alja primarily worked on the CMS Offline Software project, making changes focused on improving the visualization of the GEM detector. They addressed issues related to the handling of detector IDs within the visualization framework, specifically, incorporating try-catch blocks to handle potential exceptions. Additionally, they performed code formatting to maintain code style and readability and addressed crashes related to the jet, MET, and PFTau visualization.
cmshepcerncms-experimentc-plus-plus
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