Ric Evans-jacquez
Research Software Engineer at Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRic Evans-Jacquez is a Research Software Engineer with nine years of experience building massively parallel data pipelines and distributed systems for astrophysics, primarily powering the IceCube Neutrino Observatory’s petabyte-scale processing at the South Pole. He designs and operates large-scale, concurrent infrastructures—leveraging Kubernetes, HTCondor, RabbitMQ/Pulsar, S3/GCP, and CI/CD tooling—to process billions of events across hundreds of thousands of CPUs. Comfortable in remote, asynchronous collaborations with global teams, he combines full-stack microservice development with DevOps automation, semantic versioning, and reproducible Python packaging. A committed open-source advocate and active GitHub contributor, he translates research needs into production-grade, reusable software that accelerates scientific discovery. Beyond engineering, he brings a practitioner’s background in healthcare EHR systems and astronomical alerting prototypes, giving him a rare blend of domain breadth and production-scale systems expertise.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaCoconino High School
English
Github Skills (81)
file-metadata10
sublime10
sublime-text9
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
api8
shieldsio8
catalog8
traits8
icecube8
api-client7
dm7
metadata7
rest-api7
scanner7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Observation-Management-Service/MQClient
May 2020 - Mar 2025
A Message Queue Client API Supporting Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, and NATS.io
Contributions:22 reviews, 130 PRs, 956 pushes in 4 years 10 months
gcppythonpulsarnats-iostomp
WIPACrepo/file-catalog-indexer
Aug 2020 - May 2023
Indexing package and scripts for the File Catalog
Contributions:27 reviews, 69 PRs, 446 pushes in 2 years 9 months
indexingdatabasemetadatacreative-commonscatalog
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