Jordan Ogas
Scientist II at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Ogas is a Scientist II at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a decade of hands-on experience building and integrating unprivileged Linux container runtimes for supercomputing environments. He leads development, testing, and production deployment of Charliecloud across modern HPC systems, translating research-grade tooling into robust operational workflows. Jordan has contributed backend package maintenance to the widely used Spack package manager to ensure Charliecloud builds and dependencies remain reproducible across platforms. His background includes performance characterization of InfiniBand in VMs and containers and early work containerizing scientific applications, giving him a practical edge in benchmarking and systems integration. Based in Los Alamos, he combines research-oriented curiosity with production-focused engineering to bridge HPC science needs and container runtime reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Science, Information Technology, Bachelors of Science, Information Technology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Github Skills (5)
build-tools10
package-manager10
python10
package-management10
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 26 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the spack package manager by adding and maintaining package definitions for the charliecloud containerization tool. Their work involved creating and updating package files that specified versioning, download URLs, checksums, and dependencies for various charliecloud releases. Furthermore, the user made multiple commits to update and maintain the package definition files, ensuring compatibility with different spack versions. These contributions helped to extend the functionality of spack.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
j-ogas/misc
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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