Bill Glick
Senior System Engineer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBill Glick is a Senior System Engineer based in Champaign, IL, with two decades of hands-on experience operating large-scale HPC and research clusters and nine years in his current focused role at NCSA. He specializes in Slurm orchestration, bare-metal provisioning with xCAT/Warewulf, and automation-at-scale using Ansible paired with CI/CD pipelines to deliver repeatable, auditable infrastructure and sub-30-minute reprovision times for 500+ nodes. Bill led a major migration from Puppet/Foreman to Ansible + Semaphore with gated validations, built a Slurm maintenance framework for rolling drains and decommissions, and implemented SSH/PAM/sudo hardening that balanced security with low user friction. Known for translating complex operational needs into lifecycle standards and runbooks, he drives predictable cluster refresh cycles and zero-surprise outages through cross-team coordination and training. Beyond day-to-day ops, he contributes to institutional enablement via an internal Ansible User Group and operational knowledge bases, and has supported national-scale science projects under hardware and data pressure.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Spoon River CollegeLostant High SchoolEastern Illinois UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (72)
data-management10
monitoring10
mysql10
documentation10
provisioning9
data-visualization9
postgresql9
ipmi9
dashboard9
grafana9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
modbus9
json9
analytics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lsst-it/puppet-sal
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Puppet module for installing and configuring the LSST Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)
Contributions:11 releases, 56 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
puppet
ncsa/puppet-profile_website
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
NCSA Common Puppet Profiles - configure an Apache HTTPd website
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 PRs, 159 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ncsapuppetapacheapache-httpdhttpd
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