David Schultz
Research Cyberinfrastructure Manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schultz is a Research Cyberinfrastructure Manager with 15 years of experience building and operating middleware and distributed computing systems for scientific collaborations, currently leading the IceCube software infrastructure team at UW–Madison. He specializes in grid and HTCondor-based distributed computing, CVMFS software distribution, and production-grade middleware such as a ground-up rewrite of IceProd and Pyglidein to enable global pools. A hands-on manager and former scrum master, he blends systems programming, DevOps, and full-stack skills to keep worldwide research workflows reliable and performant. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the sigal static gallery generator, showing attention to practical optimizations like large-image processing and caching. Trained in physics (Carnegie Mellon) and computer science (Georgia Tech), he brings domain-driven engineering sensibilities from particle and nuclear simulation into scalable research software.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
image-gallery10
picture-gallery10
photo-gallery10
python10
static-site-generator10
caching9
pytest8
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saimn/sigal
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
yet another simple static gallery generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of a static gallery generator. Their work included implementing an option to process large images, adding support for a non-media files plugin, and extending the caching plugin for improved performance. These changes involved modifying core gallery classes, settings, and templates, indicating a focus on improving image handling and overall gallery performance. The user also introduced additional features and optimizations related to caching.
pythongalleriayet-anothergallerystatic-site-generator
WIPACrepo/iceprod
Mar 2011 - Dec 2022
IceCube dataset management system
Contributions:31 releases, 3 reviews, 2390 commits in 11 years 11 months
management-systemicecubedatasetdataset-management
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