Rob Knop
Computing Systems Data Engineer
Concord, California, United States
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Top SchoolRob Knop is a computing systems data engineer and former academic with a PhD in Physics who blends deep expertise in observational and computational astrophysics with hands-on Linux systems and software engineering. He contributed to the discovery of cosmic acceleration as part of the Supernova Cosmology Project and has rebuilt scientific pipelines and analysis code across C++, Python, Perl and IDL. After faculty roles teaching advanced physics and computational courses, he transitioned to production operations and release management at Linden Lab and now applies scalable data and cluster computing to large survey collaborations (DESI, DECaT, DESC) at LBNL. Comfortable bridging research and production, he moves quickly between developing analysis software and operating the systems that run it, and brings a rare combination of public outreach, classroom experience, and production-grade engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Harvey Mudd College
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Github Skills (49)
astronomy10
simulations10
python9
astrophysics9
linux9
machine-learning9
gravity9
docker9
python-client9
podman8
oci-container8
kafka-python8
confluent8
fourier-transform7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LSSTDESC/tom_desc
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 193 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
LSSTDESC/elasticc
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Repo for settings, config, metrics for DESC's Extended LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 51 pushes in 6 months
classificationtime-series
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