Michael Robbert
HPC Systems Engineer at NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Robbert is an experienced HPC systems engineer with 14+ years managing departmental to enterprise Linux infrastructure and a long tenure at CSM now extended to NCAR/NSF. He specializes in HPC bring-ups and operations—managing Rocks-based clusters with Moab/Torque scheduling, Infiniband fabrics, multiple MPI stacks, and a 200TB Lustre storage array on DDN hardware. His toolset spans Linux networking, DNS/DHCP, Samba, NIS, configuration management and monitoring, and he has contributed a Ganglia Python module to collect GPFS metrics integrating mmpmon and sudo for privileged metric collection. Based in Golden, Colorado, he brings steady, hands-on expertise in moving complex research computing systems from acquisition to production. Known for pragmatic troubleshooting and automation, he combines decades of operational experience with practical open-source contributions that improve observability of large-scale storage.
14 years of coding experience
None, Computer Science, Math, Operations Research, None, Computer Science, Math, Operations Research at Coast Guard AcademyNone, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Hope College
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Github Skills (7)
devops10
python10
ganglia10
subprocess10
bash9
monitoring9
system-administration9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ganglia/gmond_python_modules
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Repository of user-contributed Gmond Python DSO metric modules
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Michael developed a Python module to collect GPFS metrics for Ganglia. They implemented the core logic for fetching and processing GPFS data using `mmpmon`. Furthermore, they integrated the module with `sudo` for privilege escalation and modified the collection interval. They also adjusted the data types and units for the collected metrics.
metricsdsopython
mrobbert/puppet-freeradius
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
freeradiuspuppet-moduleconfigurepuppet
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