Phil Kauffman
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Kauffman is a seasoned systems scientist and Linux infrastructure engineer with 13 years of experience designing and automating large-scale installations, particularly around virtualization, clustered storage, and GPU/SLURM compute environments. Based in Los Alamos, he brings hands-on expertise in Bash and Python, configuration management with Puppet and Ansible, ZFS/NFS storage design, Docker-based deployments, and production troubleshooting/root cause analysis. He has built custom hardware+software solutions to customer specifications across research and university settings, blending DevOps practices with deep operational knowledge. At Los Alamos National Laboratory and prior roles at Northwestern and the University of Chicago, he focused on scalable virtualization backends and home-directory/VM storage integrations. Not obvious from titles alone, he often crosses into systems design work typically reserved for architects—creating reproducible, automated infrastructure for demanding scientific workloads.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at University of IowaNeuqua Valley High School
English, German
Github Skills (189)
kvm10
hyper-v10
apple210
qemu10
utm10
virtio10
hackintosh10
apt10
tpm10
virtual-desktop10
efi10
sourceforge10
power-management10
esp826610
tasmota9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
papamoose/pxe
Apr 2013 - Apr 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years 1 month
papamoose/unattended-upgrades
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
Automatic installation of security upgrades on apt based systems
Contributions:25 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
securitylinuxinstallationaptupgrades
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