Omar Padron
Production Engineer at Proprietary Trading Firm
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Padron is a Production Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing complex software stacks for high-performance environments. He has deep expertise in software supply chains and build systems, having optimized sourcing, building, testing, and delivery processes at Citadel and contributed substantial build-system and DevOps improvements to high-profile open-source projects like scikit-build and Spack. His background spans R&D and research programming at Kitware and national supercomputing centers, where he focused on automation, configuration management, and data-centric tooling. Omar’s work often sits at the intersection of back-end engineering and infrastructure: he has refactored CMake/setuptools integrations, added Cython support, and streamlined Docker-based developer workflows to improve developer experience and CI reliability. Known for pragmatic process architecture, he brings both hands-on coding and systems-level thinking to make large, heterogeneous stacks reproducible and maintainable. He holds an M.S. in Computational Applied Mathematics and combines academic rigor with production-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computational Applied Mathematics, M.S. Computational Applied Mathematics at Kean University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
docker10
python10
apidoc10
setuptools10
bash10
cmake10
dockers10
cicd10
api10
build-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
api-rest9
data-management9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-build/scikit-build
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Improved build system generator for CPython C, C++, Cython and Fortran extensions
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:78 commits, 37 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to refactoring and reorganizing the build system, focusing on improving the integration of CMake with setuptools. They renamed the project, updated the build configuration, and enhanced the handling of command-line arguments and environment variables. They also introduced new CMake modules, including support for Cython, and improved the project's testing infrastructure with Travis and Appveyor support.
build-systemcppcpythoncythonfortran
spack/spack
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 40 commits, 71 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Omar's contributions primarily focus on improving the Spack package manager's infrastructure and build processes. They implemented a Docker-based developer resource, integrated and automated the build of Docker images, and streamlined docker resources. They also resolved issues related to Docker image entrypoints. The user's work significantly improves Spack's developer experience and build automation capabilities.
compilerpackage-managerpythonspackhpc
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