Summary
Dave Glowacki is a seasoned researcher and software developer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing mission-critical data acquisition systems, most recently for the IceCube detector at the South Pole. He brings deep C and Java expertise, complemented by Python and Perl skills, and a long history of engineering robust Unix-based solutions across FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Dave has a track record of designing databases, refactoring large scientific visualization systems, and migrating complex architectures to simpler, more reliable layers—efforts that enabled stable DAQ operations in extreme field conditions. He has supervised teams, taught C programming, and repeatedly traveled in-person to deploy and troubleshoot systems in situ, demonstrating rare operational-plus-software fluency. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, his career blends academic research rigor with pragmatic production engineering, and his retirement-level status belies an ongoing commitment to improving long-lived scientific infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Iowa