Michael Davis
Section Leader, Tape Archive And Backup at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Davis is a seasoned storage and data management leader at CERN with nine years of experience delivering mission-critical archival and backup systems for large-scale scientific programs. As Section Leader of Tape Archive and Backup, he oversees the CERN Tape Archive (CTA), a custodial repository approaching exabyte scale that safeguards decades of experimental data across LHC and external collaborations. He progressed from C++/Linux developer to project leader, designing, implementing and commissioning CTA software and leading the complex migration of 340 PB from the legacy CASTOR system. Michael combines deep hands‑on engineering with program-level planning and international collaboration, regularly interfacing with experiments and partner labs worldwide. His background spans accelerator controls and IT, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on data lifecycle and infrastructure resilience in data‑intensive science. He holds advanced degrees and a practical track record of turning large, high-stakes data challenges into reliable, production services.
9 years of coding experience
BSc. (Hons), BSc. (Hons) at Brunel UniversityMSc., MSc. at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (15)
azerothcore9
aix9
latex8
dice8
storage8
rpg8
tarball7
distributed-file-system6
discord-bot6
discord5
jwt2
strava2
feed1
rss1
diaspora1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slithy/rpg_module
May 2017 - Jan 2022
rpg-module: a LaTeX class for typesetting RPG adventure modules in the style of D&D modules from the 1980s
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 8 months
azerothcoremodrpgadventure-rpglatex
slithy/bambleweeny
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
The Bambleweeny 57 Submeson Brain, a dice-rolling bot with support for Castles & Crusades
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 PRs, 75 pushes in 5 years
braindice-rollingdiscordbotrolling
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