Jason Nucciarone is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in open-source high-performance computing (HPC) and user-space tooling. At Canonical he leads the Ubuntu HPC community and builds a Charmed HPC stack while packaging upstream Debian software and advocating Ubuntu for greenfield and brownfield deployments. His background includes deploying container runtimes like Apptainer/Singularity, automating scheduler compatibility (Moab/Torque to SLURM), and creating operators to simplify NFS and SLURM orchestration. He combines hands-on cluster engineering and CI work with community-building—organizing talks and founding Ubuntu’s official HPC community team. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a human-centered design perspective from his Penn State degree to make complex HPC systems more user-friendly and deployable. An uncommon strength is his track record of converting legacy workflows into containerized, high-throughput pipelines that scale for research and production.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Human Centered Design and Development, Cum Laude, Bachelor's degree, Human Centered Design and Development, Cum Laude at Penn State University
High School Diploma, General Studies, Graduated, High School Diploma, General Studies, Graduated at State College Area High School
[moved]: Juju charm for slurmctld, the central management daemon of Slurm
Contributions:25 reviews, 22 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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Jason Nucciarone - Software Engineer 1 at Canonical