Robert Soliday
Principal Computer Scientist, Application Development
Lisle, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert 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.
26 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Physics at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (7)
cpp10
aps10
display-manager8
extension-methods7
windows4
strip3
visualization1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rtsoliday/SDDS
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
SDDS (Self Describing Data Sets) C/C++ Library – Official implementation of the SDDS format, a structured data format for scientific applications. The library provides functions to create, read, and manipulate SDDS files, supporting various data types, multi-page datasets, and compressed file handling.
Contributions:83 PRs, 360 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 5 months
rtsoliday/medm
Sep 2025 - May 2026
Motif Editor and Display Manager
Contributions:409 pushes in 7 months
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