Summary
Robert Soliday is a Principal Computer Scientist with 25+ years at Argonne National Laboratory building the control and data systems that keep the Advanced Photon Source running. He leads development and stewardship of the SDDS toolkit—400+ diagnostic utilities used at 30+ labs worldwide—and architects a 200‑node SLURM cluster that powers APS‑U beam dynamics simulations. Equally at home in low‑level accelerator automation and high‑performance computing, he has delivered repeated productivity gains (including a 30% injector start‑up reduction) and practical cost savings by repurposing infrastructure. His stack spans EPICS (CA/PVA), C/C++, Python, GPU acceleration, SLURM/Lustre, and mobile app tooling, and he actively supports the global community via the elegant forum. Beyond operations, he’s extending SDDS and EPICS7 loggers to stream thousands of real‑time data points from next‑gen power supplies, widening the toolkit’s reach.
25 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Physics at Northern Illinois University