Christian Presley
Deputy Director, Infrastructure And Operations
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Presley is an experienced infrastructure and research computing leader with over two decades of practice modernizing HPC, AI, and enterprise environments for institutions like the University of Maryland, NIH, Vanderbilt, and the Frederick National Laboratory. He builds high-performing teams and execution frameworks that translate architectural strategy into operational ownership, resilient platforms, and compliance-ready data services. Comfortable at the intersection of research and IT, he has led flagship HPC rollouts, hybrid cloud clusters, multi-petabyte storage programs, and data-center transformations while keeping user experience and NIST cybersecurity requirements balanced. Known for restructuring teams and governance to accelerate modernization, he pairs PMI-informed project disciplines with creative service delivery approaches where traditional IT falls short. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a rare combination of academic research empathy and enterprise rigor that helps scientific organizations turn complex technical scope into usable, auditable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M. Eng Project Management, M. Eng Project Management at University of MarylandBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (28)
ckfinder8
nagios8
solaris8
freebsd7
tarball7
linux6
openzfs6
ckeditor5
monitor5
laravel4
ace-editor4
php4
vue4
jodit4
wysiwyg3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
presleyd/alpinejs-select
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year
presleyd/django-tutorial
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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