Michael Weisner
Senior High Performance Computing Specialist at New York University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Weisner is a Senior High Performance Computing Specialist with nine years of experience building and operating research computing platforms for top universities, currently supporting HPC clusters and cloud-based research at NYU. He combines deep hands-on expertise in HPC operations, containerized workflows (Singularity), GCP and AWS services, and secure research environments with a strong background in data security, machine learning, and statistical programming in Python and R. At Columbia he helped design and run multiple HPC clusters, a Secure Data Enclave, and JupyterHub deployments, and he now leads SRDE tasks including NIST 800-171 assessments and policy drafting. His MA in Quantitative Methods complements his engineering work, exemplified by a thesis analyzing air pollution, weather, and S&P 500 predictive relationships, highlighting his ability to translate quantitative research into production-ready compute solutions. Notably, he bridges researcher-facing training and technical automation, making complex secure-compute workflows accessible and repeatable across academic projects.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York UniversityMaster's degree, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Master's degree, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
ecology9
stable7
r7
data-wrangling6
visualization5
data-visualization5
data-visualisation4
data-analysis4
scraper3
rpg3
data-science3
golang2
csv2
nbgrader1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mdweisner/planets
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
mdweisner/textmining_workshop
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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