Gavin Mccance
Chief Information Technology Architect
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Mccance is a seasoned IT architect and engineering leader with over two decades of experience designing, operating, and scaling globally distributed Big Data and compute services for scientific research. Based at CERN in Geneva, he currently leads architecture strategy and a team ensuring coherent, standards-driven IT across services that support the Large Hadron Collider experiments. He previously ran CERN’s 250–300k-core batch and HPC facilities, led migration to Puppet and OpenStack at scale, and manages critical Worldwide LHC Computing Grid monitoring and configuration systems. Gavin blends hands-on systems engineering, SRE practices, and project leadership to deliver resilient, automated infrastructure for thousands of physicist users worldwide. His background in high-energy physics (PhD) gives him uncommon domain empathy for translating research needs into production-grade compute platforms.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSci (Hons), Physics, MSci (Hons), Physics at The University of GlasgowPhD, High Energy Particle Physics, PhD, High Energy Particle Physics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (29)
lifecycle9
react-native9
gitbook9
golang9
mattermost9
collaboration9
react9
monorepo9
puppet8
provisioning8
markdown7
lsf6
python-bindings6
documentation6
rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gmccance/pylsf
Nov 2011 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
python-bindingspythonlsf
gmccance/kitchenplan-config
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 months
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