Derrick Greenspan
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Central Florida
Winter Springs, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Greenspan is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Central Florida with a PhD in Computer Science and roughly a decade of experience working across high-performance computing, operating systems, and persistent/multi-level memory systems. His academic and research trajectory at UCF—BS, MS, and PhD—reflects deep institutional continuity and a focus on practical HPC support, including helping users optimize workloads on the STOKES cluster. Funded research through an ONR grant at ARPERS sharpened his expertise in persistent memory technologies and multicore programming for real-world systems. Derrick combines hands-on technical consulting (system builds, job-queue troubleshooting) with rigorous research, making him adept at translating low-level systems problems into deployable solutions. Based in Winter Springs, Florida, he brings both lab-driven innovation and operational experience that help bridge the gap between research prototypes and production-scale HPC environments. An often-overlooked strength is his long-term commitment to the same institution, which has given him unusually deep operational knowledge of large academic computing infrastructures.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Crooms Academy Of Information TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 3.865, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 3.865 at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (37)
simulator9
simulation9
processor9
trace9
power-systems8
electrical-engineering8
networking8
modeling-tool8
network-analysis8
san7
volatile7
sst7
dax7
non-volatile7
byte6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
derrickgreenspan/LLAMA
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
LLAMA - Automatic Memory Allocations
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 months
memoryallocationsmemory-allocationsllamallvm
derrickgreenspan/derrickgreenspan.github.io
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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