Summary
Chris Jeon is an HPC Cluster Engineer with 8 years of experience building and operating large-scale supercomputing environments, currently leading the genomics cluster at Stanford Medicine after managing NASA Ames systems including the 18,000-node Pleiades and 2,000-node Aitken. He combines hands-on expertise in cluster provisioning, operations, and hardware procurement with a strategic focus on system architecture, cost-to-value analysis, and making HPC more accessible through clear education and documentation. A Georgia Tech MS candidate with a BS in Applied Mathematics from UCLA, Chris has been recognized for operational excellence at NASA and specializes in delivering reliable, high-performance infrastructure for scientific discovery. He is particularly interested in system designs that scale across data centers and in translating complex technical trade-offs into actionable decisions for researchers, operators, and funders.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California, Los Angeles