Frank Berghaus
Data Service Support
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Berghaus is a data service support engineer and physicist with 12 years of experience building and operating scientific computing and long-term data management systems. Currently at the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, he specializes in distributed storage, IaaS cloud infrastructure, and ensuring data integrity in production workflows. His open-source contributions to Rucio—improving checksum validation, upload/download reliability, and development infrastructure—highlight a practical focus on resilient, reproducible data services used in large-scale science. Frank’s background spans national labs and research institutions (CERN, Argonne, University of Victoria), combining deep academic training (PhD) with hands-on DevOps and back-end engineering. Colleagues describe him as the sort who anticipates edge-case failures and builds safeguards before they occur, reflecting a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to scientific data stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of VictoriaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Saint Mary's UniversityMSc, MSc at The University of British Columbia
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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211reached
2answers
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Github Skills (10)
file-validation10
python10
data-management10
distributed-systems9
docker8
dockers8
devops8
git7
openstack6
openstack-heat6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 21 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on enhancing the Rucio data management system by addressing checksum validations and improving file upload/download processes. They implemented MD5 checksum validation during file uploads and downloads, ensuring data integrity. Furthermore, the user contributed to infrastructure improvements, including adding a graphite container for the development environment. They also made several code improvements and bug fixes related to file validation and RSE manager functionality.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
berghaus/rucio
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Contributions:42 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
data-managementscientific-data-managementscientificscientific-data
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