Kurt Strosahl
Staff Scientist 2, Scientific Computing Group at Jefferson Lab
Newport News, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Strosahl is a seasoned systems engineer and staff scientist with 12 years managing high-performance scientific computing at Jefferson Lab and prior experience in federal IT for the Coast Guard. He specializes in building and operating large compute clusters (1000+ nodes, KNL and GPU systems), multi-petabyte Lustre and ZFS storage, and high-speed Infiniband/Omnipath networks to support physics simulations and data analysis. Kurt combines hands-on automation (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet, kickstart), job schedulers (Torque, Slurm), and monitoring stacks to keep mid-teraflop-class infrastructure reliable and performant. He has operational experience integrating cross-site data transfer tools (xrootd, Pelican), certificate and scitoken-based authentication workflows, and has worked closely with the Open Science Grid to run jobs globally. Unusually for an operator, he pairs deep sysadmin chops with C-style coding and Python scripting, and a consistent focus on documentation, test plans, and security hardening to DHS standards. Based in Newport News, VA, he continues to explore cloud, containerization, big data and ML approaches to modernize scientific workflows.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ODU dojoBachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University
English
Github Skills (21)
freebsd9
linux9
solaris9
portability8
tarball8
singularity-container8
openzfs8
reproducible-science8
singularity7
portable7
parallel7
apptainer7
zfs7
science7
hpc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
intentions/sshknownhosts
May 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
intentions/Singularitytest
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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