Maxim Potekhin
Senior Applications Architect
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMaxim Potekhin is a Senior Applications Architect with 23 years of experience applying software engineering and data-driven techniques to large-scale physics experiments and high-throughput computing. Based at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he designs collaborative tools, ML-based signal feature extraction, monitoring systems and CI/software packaging for projects ranging from EIC and sPHENIX to LuSEE@Night and ProtoDUNE. His background blends hands-on experiment simulation and detector geometry work with production-grade workload management (PanDA) and data preservation efforts, reflecting a rare mix of research physics and production softwareops. Former roles at Morgan Stanley and Open Science Grid underscore his strength in high-performance analytics, risk-sensitive systems and secure distributed computing. He is an active collaborator across major HEP experiments (ATLAS, DUNE, Belle II, PHENIX, STAR) and brings deep institutional memory of building tools that survive decades of evolving science.
23 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Nuclear Physics, PhD, Nuclear Physics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMS, Physics and Engineering, MS, Physics and Engineering at Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute
Russian
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Github Skills (47)
portal10
particle9
zenodo9
scientific-publications9
monte-carlo9
open-access9
docker8
hosting8
hpc-applications8
golang8
particle-physics8
geant47
physics7
research-data-management7
snl-applications7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BNLNPPS/esi-g4-optical
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:47 PRs, 110 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
DUNE/protodune-raw-data-mgt
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:185 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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