Rollin Thomas
Director, NERSC-10 Project at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolRollin Thomas is a senior computing leader with over 20 years of experience driving high-performance and data-intensive computing for scientific research, currently directing the NERSC-10 project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He blends hands-on engineering and program leadership, having progressed from postdoctoral scientist to Director while shaping next-generation supercomputing strategy and operations. Passionate about interactive, real-time, and urgent supercomputing use cases, he also contributes code to major open-source projects—most notably enhancements to JupyterHub that bridge backend Tornado/Python services and user-facing JavaScript/UI. His background in astrophysics (PhD) and long tenure at NERSC give him a rare mix of domain science insight and systems engineering expertise. Based in Berkeley, he is recognized as a Project Jupyter Distinguished Contributor (2022), underscoring his commitment to improving researcher workflows.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Purdue UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics at University of Oklahoma
Russian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
jupyterhub10
python10
javascript9
tornado9
api8
apidoc8
front-end-development8
html7
css6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterhub/jupyterhub
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 31 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rollin contributed to the JupyterHub project by implementing and modifying both backend and frontend components. They added a new announcement service, involving backend logic using Python (Tornado) and frontend templates. Furthermore, they improved the user interface, including the addition of server management controls with associated JavaScript code changes. These changes encompass both the backend and frontend elements required to enhance JupyterHub functionality.
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupytermulti-user
NERSC/slurm-magic
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
IPython magic for SLURM.
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 4 months
slurmpythonmagicipython-magicipython
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