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.
25 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Physics, Master of Science (M.S.), Physics at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (12)
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launchpad10
launcher10
motif9
extension-methods7
display-manager6
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linux3
windows3
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rtsoliday/SDDS
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rtsoliday/elegant
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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