Michael Fenn
Systems Administrator IT Manager
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fenn is a seasoned systems administrator and IT manager with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale compute and storage infrastructures for research and enterprise environments. Based in Cary, NC, he has led global teams and delivered complex projects from data center builds and multi-petabyte storage migrations to OS and messaging platform transitions with minimal user impact. He combines deep hands-on expertise in HPC, GPFS/NetApp storage, SLURM, and automation (Ansible/Bcfg2) with financial rigor—justifying hardware refreshes via TCO and building cost models for sustainable services. Known for turning fragmented clusters into resilient cyberinfrastructure, he also implemented a custom HTTP-based file distribution system and production-grade caching using Varnish. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic planning, vendor negotiation, and metrics-driven operations that balance performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Clemson University
Github Skills (66)
python10
vim10
automation10
git-clone10
launcher10
ssh10
calculator10
network-configuration10
ncurses10
ansible-module10
file-search10
unit-conversion10
ansible10
developer-tools10
cli10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DEShawResearch/random123
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Counter-based random number generators for C, C++ and CUDA.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
cppcuda
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