Summary
Eric Lingerfelt is a Senior Data Management Expert with over eight years building production-grade, full-stack data platforms for scientific and industrial users. He architects and implements scalable, secure data workflows—most recently leading data management for Germany’s HammerHAI AI Factory and previously designing R2D2, a petabyte-scale, 24/7 cloud REST service now used by NASA and the US Air Force. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and cross-disciplinary leadership, he has a track record of turning blank-slate visions into operational services that harmonize heterogeneous scientific data sources. His background in physics and long history with national labs and NSF programs give him deep experience in regulatory-compliant data governance and federated access for research infrastructures. Notably, he founded a consultancy that delivered semantic discovery, HPC/cloud integration, and visualization tooling, showing an entrepreneurial bent alongside his institutional impact. Based in Munich, he blends academic rigor with practical delivery to accelerate AI adoption in industry and science.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math Physics, BS Math Physics at East Tennessee State University
MS Physics with a concentration on Astrophysics, MS Physics with a concentration on Astrophysics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville