Matt Lebofsky
Breakthrough Listen SETI Home - Lead System Administrator And Data Analyst
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lebofsky is a seasoned systems administrator, data analyst, and developer with 23 years building and operating large-scale scientific computing projects for UC Berkeley’s SETI initiatives, currently leading systems and data work for the petabyte-scale Breakthrough Listen effort. He combines deep backend engineering—contributing to core BOINC functionality used by millions—with hands-on DBA, web, and network administration experience managing multi-terabyte databases and sites serving millions of hits per day. Matt couples that technical breadth with practical operations knowledge gained running the world’s largest volunteer computing project since 1998, including scheduler and FastCGI improvements to BOINC. Outside of astrophysics computing he is an accomplished multi-instrument musician and producer, having composed, recorded, and toured extensively across 29 countries, which informs his creative problem-solving and project leadership. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he thrives at the intersection of scientific research, scalable infrastructure, and creative production. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of shipping reliable user-facing systems under extreme load while also delivering publishable scientific results.
23 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS Math/Computer Science, BA Music Compostion, BS Math/Computer Science, BA Music Compostion at Binghamton University
Github Skills (8)
fastcgi10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
distributed-computing9
grid-computing8
php8
scientific-computing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BOINC/boinc
Nov 2002 - May 2008
Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the BOINC project, adding features like `stripchart_cgi_url`, `hide-ip-address functionality` and integrating `fcgi_stdio.h` into multiple source files for FastCGI support. They fixed typos, corrected paths related to user profile galleries, and addressed printf statements for proper FastCGI operation. Furthermore, the user implemented a counter/timeout loop in the scheduler and modified the server status page.
pythonsciencehigh-performance-computingphpscientific-computing
UCBerkeleySETI/bl_singularity
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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