Benjamin Meyers
Research Computing Facilitator III
Town of Riga, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBenjamin Meyers is a Research Computing Facilitator III and PhD candidate with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience focused on high-performance research computing, reproducible workflows, and package management. Based at RIT, he helps researchers leverage Slurm, Ceph, and Spack—contributing upstream to Spack by creating and maintaining Python package recipes that improve scientific software portability. He combines deep academic study of software security and computational linguistics with practical systems work, teaching secure software engineering as an adjunct and developing documentation and training for researchers. Detail-oriented and passionate about software as an art form, he brings a user-focused aesthetic to tooling and workflows that often expose the human side of engineering. Outside work he’s a tea-loving, LEGO-building beard enthusiast who applies the same craftsmanship to code and models.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences, 3.690 GPA, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing and Information Sciences, 3.690 GPA at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Regents Diploma, 4.0 GPA, Advanced Regents Diploma, 4.0 GPA at Churchville-Chili High School
English, Spanish, java, python, unix command line, ruby, html & css, c/c++, sql/postgresql, r, bash, php
Stackoverflow
313reputation
15kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (15)
build-system10
spack10
package-management10
python10
scientific-computing9
build-tools9
hpc9
apache-spark6
python-multithreading6
python-modules6
python-multiprocessing6
linux6
subprocess6
preference6
java6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Package Maintainer
Backend Developer & Package MaintainerContributions:29 reviews, 5 commits, 22 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by adding and updating Python packages. Their work involved creating new package definitions for libraries like `py-urwid`, `py-stui`, and `py-fastfold`, including specifying dependencies, versions, and maintainer information. They also updated existing packages, such as `py-seaborn` and `py-meldmd`, ensuring compatibility and incorporating bug fixes. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Spack's package definition system and package management principles.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
meyersbs/politeness
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 47 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stanfordpythonpolitenesscorpusmachine-learning
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.