Douglas Jacobsen
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Jacobsen is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of deep HPC, Linux systems, and scientific computing experience, currently working with NVIDIA on Slurm integration. He has led teams at Microsoft and Berkeley Lab to deploy and operate mission-critical supercomputers and large-scale InfiniBand networks that support top-tier AI and DOE science workloads. His background blends hands-on systems engineering (container runtimes like Shifter, Slurm contributions, monitoring and CI tooling) with operational leadership across datacenter, vendor, and customer boundaries. Trained as a biophysicist with a PhD in bioinformatics, he uniquely bridges computational science and production infrastructure, having translated research-grade methods into robust, high-throughput platforms. Known for pragmatic change-control and automation, he has repeatedly delivered on tight performance and capacity requirements for high-stakes users. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he brings both deep technical craftsmanship and proven program-level delivery.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Bioinformatics, Ph. D., Bioinformatics at University of MichiganMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Github Skills (93)
runc10
singularity10
linux10
shifter10
linux-containers10
hpc10
yang9
scalable9
kubelet9
slurm9
google-cloud-platform9
google-cloud9
cloud-platform9
bootstrap9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dmjacobsen/slurm
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:122 commits, 2 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 7 months
slurmscalableworkloadworkflow
NERSC/shifter
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Shifter - Linux Containers for HPC
Contributions:5 releases, 1334 commits, 224 PRs in 5 years 2 months
containersruncshiftersingularitylinux
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