Ethan O'dell
Kubernetes Platform Systems Engineer
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolEthan O'dell is a Kubernetes Platform Systems Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating HPC and cloud-native infrastructure, currently based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory while pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He combines academic rigor—from published research on graph algorithms and node health monitoring—with practical systems work, including designing Kubernetes platforms and automating cluster health checks and benchmarks. His background spans national labs (LANL, ORNL), university research, and industry internships, giving him deep familiarity with performance testing, monitoring tools, and orchestration at scale. Notably, he has implemented parallel algorithms, led applied computer vision and reinforcement learning projects, and even improved operational efficiency in non-technical roles by learning new languages and managing budgets. Ethan is actively seeking opportunities to apply his platform engineering and research experience to federal agency or national lab challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, General Education, High School, General Education at Pattonville High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Rolla
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
92reputation
3kreached
12answers
5questions
Github Skills (16)
huggingface-transformers6
gmp6
data-mining6
data-preprocessing6
operator-overloading6
segmentation-fault6
pointer6
arxiv6
zip6
api4
database3
nodejs3
monte-carlo2
python1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
evader110/ArXivPully
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
An API that can return articles from the ArXiv database for development purposes
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 months
apinodejsarxivdatabase
evader110/Project-Primordial
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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