Juan Herrera
Software Architect at EPCC
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Herrera is a Software Architect with a decade of experience leading training, user support, and outreach for ARCHER2, the UK’s national supercomputer, at EPCC in Edinburgh. With a PhD in Computer Science from Universidad de Almería, he progressed from application developer to consultant and now architect, blending deep HPC expertise in I/O performance and energy-efficient parallel technologies with practical service delivery. He has contributed to major European research projects (Adept, NEXTGenIO) and health informatics benchmarking, bringing both research rigor and hands-on optimization skills to production supercomputing environments. Known for translating complex HPC challenges into effective training and user-facing solutions, he balances technical leadership with a commitment to enabling diverse scientific users.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidad de Almería
Spanish, English
Github Skills (30)
ecology10
stable10
cluster-computing10
hpc-applications10
data-management9
mpi9
sql9
data-wrangling9
database9
archer8
hpc8
infiniband8
mysql8
postgresql8
fortran7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EPCCed/archer2-data-analytics-python
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
juanfrh/build-instructions
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
Contains build scripts and instructions for software on a variety of UK HPC resources
Contributions:9 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
build-scriptsinstructionshpcvariety
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