Britt Yazel
Lead HPC Engineer at University of California, San Francisco
California, United States
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Top SchoolBritt Yazel is a Lead HPC Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance computing platforms for scientific, medical, and AI research at UCSF. She architects scalable, fault-tolerant HPC systems—deploying GPU infrastructure like NVIDIA HGX H200, high-throughput storage, and SLURM-optimized scheduling—while driving NIST-aligned security and observability practices. With a PhD in Neuroscience, she uniquely bridges domain science and systems engineering, having accelerated neuroimaging pipelines with CUDA and led research teams that secured substantial funding and hardware partnerships. Her background includes managing research Linux environments, CI/CD for scientific software, and leading open source governance on the GNOME board. An active contributor to community projects, she also implements practical UX improvements (e.g., a user-toggleable Rocket.Chat dark mode) that reflect her full-stack sensibility. Based in California, Britt combines hands-on infrastructure delivery with researcher-facing collaboration to make compute both performant and usable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology at Eastern Washington University
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Github Skills (6)
darktheme10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
rocketchat9
ui-design8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pbaity/rocketchat-dark-mode
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
An easy user-togglable dark mode for Rocket.Chat
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Britt primarily contributed to implementing a dark mode feature for the Rocket.Chat application. They focused on styling the user interface to create a dark theme, modifying CSS to adjust colors, backgrounds, and other visual elements. They also included JavaScript code to enable users to toggle between light and dark modes. These changes involved numerous modifications to the CSS styles and JavaScript files related to the UI.
rocketchatchatrocketchat-darkrocketdark-theme
brittyazel/EnhancedRaidFrames
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
World of Warcraft addon to enhance the built-in raid frames with Grid like functionality!
Contributions:154 releases, 264 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 7 months
world-of-warcraft
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