Summary
John-paul Navarro is a seasoned HPC and infrastructure leader with over 10 years in focused roles at Argonne National Laboratory and a long career in systems engineering dating back to the 1980s. He currently co-leads ACCESS CONECT operations support, bringing deep expertise in high-performance computing, distributed systems, storage, databases, and high-performance interconnects. Throughout successive leadership roles in XSEDE and TeraGrid programs he translated user requirements into production-ready capabilities and managed software development and integration for large-scale research infrastructure. His hands-on roots as an IBM SP and Linux HPC systems administrator give him rare operational empathy for the clusters and networks he now designs and oversees. Based in the United States with a BS in Computer Science, he combines institutional knowledge of national research computing with a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to delivering reliable, scalable systems. An understated strength is his cross-domain fluency—bridging operations, development, and user-facing requirements to keep complex HPC ecosystems running.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Andrews University
English, Spanish