Andrew Elwell
Supercomputing Systems Administrator
Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Elwell is a Supercomputing Systems Administrator with over 17 years' experience managing large-scale HPC environments, currently responsible for Cray XC systems and multi-petabyte Lustre filesystems at Pawsey. With roots at CERN and a background migrating grid and virtualisation testbeds to modern platforms, he blends deep systems engineering with security expertise (MSc in Computer Security and CISSP). He is skilled in fabric management, monitoring and batch system operations, and has a track record of planning maintenance at petascale while supporting diverse research users. Although trained in biochemistry, he pivoted early to computing and brings a pragmatic, researcher-friendly approach to infrastructure reliability. Off-hours he tinkers with home automation and even walks llamas, reflecting a hands-on curiosity that feeds his operational creativity.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Security, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Security at University of LiverpoolBSc (Hons), Biochemistry, BSc (Hons), Biochemistry at University of Glasgow
French, English
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Github Skills (157)
slurm10
saml10
fluentd10
monitoring10
database10
react10
solarman9
linux9
provisioning9
scalable9
rust9
concerto9
timeseries-database9
influxdb9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Elwell/solarmon
Sep 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 2 issues in 5 years 11 months
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Pawseyops/lustre-collectd
May 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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