Andy Loftus
Technical Program Manager at National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Loftus is a Technical Program Manager and 25-year Linux systems veteran who blends deep hands-on automation expertise with program-level leadership to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure. Based in Champaign, IL, he has led teams at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to standardize software-defined provisioning, streamline operations with triage practices, and create career-path-driven retention programs that free engineers to focus on sprint work. His pragmatic approach favors redeploy-over-repair when it speeds recovery, and he has institutionalized Git training and PM processes that ensured 100% on-time maintenance outcomes. Comfortable with Puppet, Ansible, containers, and Kubernetes, he couples tooling with communication and workflow design to reduce toil and increase staff satisfaction. An MS in Software Engineering complements his long track record managing multi-petabyte storage and supercomputing infrastructure while moving teams from firefighting to predictable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS, Software Engineering, MS CS, Software Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (60)
puppet9
docker-container9
chat9
slack8
lvm8
chrome-extension8
javascript8
webrtc8
meteor7
classifier7
sudo7
collaboration7
communications6
sssd6
data-management6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ncsa/psync
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 103 commits, 35 pushes in 5 months
ncsa/ldap-tools
Aug 2025 - Jun 2026
Scripts, templates, and docs for managing ds389 LDAP servers
Contributions:1 PR, 167 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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