Rion Dooley is a technical leader and platform architect with 13+ years building cloud, distributed, and reproducible science infrastructure, currently serving as a Technical Fellow at Data Machines after directing Platform Services and Solutions. He combines deep research roots (PhD-level work and a decade at TACC) with hands-on product delivery, leading projects in scheduling, data and identity management, and Science-as-a-Service platforms like Agave. Rion is experienced mentoring teams, driving DevOps and security evolution, and translating emerging distributed-computing trends into production-ready capabilities. He is active in open source and known for bringing academic-grade rigor to practical engineering problems, making complex HPC and big-data workflows accessible to everyday researchers.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
A.A., Liberal Arts, A.A., Liberal Arts at Southeasern Community College
B.A., Math / Computer Science, B.A., Math / Computer Science at Augustana College
n/a, Computer Science, n/a, Computer Science at Simpson College
Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
Contributions:36 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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