Rick Wagner
Director Of Operations
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Wagner is an experienced director of operations and HPC leader with 16 years managing large-scale scientific computing infrastructures and teams. Currently leading operations at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and serving on the Project Jupyter Executive Council, he blends hands-on systems architecture with strategic program leadership. His career includes CTO and senior engineering roles at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and UC San Diego, where he ran multi-petabyte storage, national-scale clusters, and production services supporting diverse research communities. Trained as a physicist (MS/PhD work at UCSD), he brings deep scientific computing insight that informs pragmatic technology choices and proposal-level system design. Known for bridging research needs and operational excellence, he also has roots in small-business IT and early technical leadership that shape his practical management style.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoAA Transfer Studies, AA Transfer Studies at San Diego Mesa College
Github Skills (153)
python10
ipython10
singularity-container10
authenticator10
portable10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
kubernetes-cluster10
kubernetes10
deploying10
jupyter10
apptainer10
multi-user10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ucsd-rcd/meetings
May 2022 - Aug 2023
UCSD RCD Community Meetings
Contributions:24 PRs, 64 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
ucsd
fair-research/fair-research.github.io
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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