Levi Baber
Director Of Research IT - College Of LAS at Iowa State University
Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLevi Baber is a seasoned research IT leader with 11 years of experience building and operating specialized compute, storage, and software services for university researchers. As Director of Research IT for the College of LAS at Iowa State University, he runs boutique high-performance systems, manages multi-petabyte storage and campus HPC allocations, and leads a team that supports hundreds of labs and thousands of users. He blends hands-on systems engineering with program leadership, having previously managed regional IT teams and complex vendor integrations at Citi. An active open-source contributor, Levi has extended the Spack package manager to better support bioinformatics software, demonstrating a focus on reproducible scientific computing. He values transparency, collaboration, and performance tuning—he enjoys making computers go fast and solving the messy dependencies that slow research down.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Management, Management at Franklin UniversitySoutheast PolkArchitecture, Architecture at Iowa State UniversityManagement, Management at Simpson CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Drake University
Github Skills (6)
package-manager-tool10
package-manager10
python10
package-management10
scientific-computing10
build-tools9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 181 commits, 284 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Levi primarily contributed to the development and integration of various bioinformatics software packages within the Spack package manager. Their work involved creating new package definitions for tools such as `sabre`, `r-biobase`, `fastme`, and `py-dlcpar`. The user also made significant improvements and fixes to existing package configurations, specifically addressing dependency issues and version handling. These contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the capabilities of Spack to support a broader range of scientific software.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
baberlevi/davinci_cura_configs
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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