Kay Kasemir
Technology Architect at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKay Kasemir is a Technology Architect with 19 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing control system software and SCADA solutions for national labs. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he builds end-to-end tools for operator interfaces, archiving, alarming and low-level RF control, combining desktop, web, and embedded drivers across TCP/IP and real-time platforms. His background spans C/C++ and Java ecosystems, Python and scripting, web technologies, multiple RDBMSs, and Unix/RTOS environments, enabling reliable distributed and multithreaded systems. Previously at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he focused on low-level control and device integration, and he holds a Ph.D. in Physics, bringing deep domain knowledge to complex instrumentation problems. Notably, Kay bridges research-grade requirements and production software, often implementing low-level PCI/VXI/VME drivers alongside high-level web displays. He is known for pragmatic architecture that balances performance, maintainability, and operational resilience in mission-critical control systems.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Universität Osnabrück
Github Skills (77)
siemens10
accelerator10
ethernet-ip10
java-lib10
eclipse10
grav-plugin10
monitoring10
socket10
scale10
control-systems10
bacnet10
opc10
monitor10
java10
large-scale10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ornl-epics/dbwr
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Display Builder Web Runtime: Use many display builder screens in a web browser
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 56 commits in 3 years 10 months
browserruntimebuilderweb-browsergrav-plugin
kasemir/phoebus-doc
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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