Kevin Brandstatter
Backend Enginieer at Tovala
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Brandstatter is a backend engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, cloud and HPC environments, and production services, currently focused at Tovala in the Greater Chicago Area. He combines academic research in persistent hash tables and many-task computing from Illinois Institute of Technology with practical platform and DevOps experience across companies like Ocient, CPI, and QsrSoft. Comfortable in C/C++, Java, Linux and mobile stacks (iOS/Android), he has contributed to the spack open-source ecosystem by improving ATLAS and LAPACK packaging for scientific builds. Kevin’s background blends research rigor with production delivery, making him adept at integrating low-level performance work into scalable backend and platform solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
package-manager-tool10
build-tools10
package-manager10
lapack10
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the spack package manager by creating and modifying package files for ATLAS and LAPACK. They added new packaging configurations for ATLAS, including options for linking against LAPACK. Further contributions involved updating the LAPACK package definition to correctly link with the installed ATLAS libraries. These changes focused on building and integrating linear algebra libraries within the spack environment.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
kev40293/NoVoHT
Dec 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:206 commits in 1 year 10 months
hash-tablepersistenthash
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