Dan Barker
Senior HPC Systems Architect at Lambda
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Barker is a Senior HPC Systems Architect with a decade of focused experience designing and operating high-performance computing environments, currently leading architecture at Lambda from Ann Arbor. He transitioned from a long tenure as System Administrator for High Performance Computing at the University of Michigan into progressive roles at Lambda, bringing deep operational knowledge of large research and production clusters. Dan blends biomedical engineering training with practical HPC systems expertise, offering a multidisciplinary perspective on compute, storage, and workflow optimization. He’s skilled at translating researcher requirements into resilient, scalable infrastructure and has a track record of moving from hands-on operations to strategic architecture. Based in Michigan, he pairs academic-rooted rigor with startup-speed delivery, often uncovering efficiency gains that aren’t obvious until systems are stress-tested.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science and Engineering Biomedical Engineering at University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan-Flint
Github Skills (6)
python5
slurm5
mass4
workload3
liquid2
scalable2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umich-cphds/cov-ind-19
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Publicly available data, source code, and other resources prepared by the COV-IND-19 Study Group in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in India
Contributions:3 reviews, 302 commits, 107 PRs in 2 years 5 months
data-sourceoutbreakpreparedstudy-groupcov
umich-cphds/cov-ind-19-data
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1471 commits, 1471 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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