Tim Carr
EResearch Technical Specialist at On The Ball Foundation
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolTim Carr is an eResearch Technical Specialist with over 25 years in IT and a decade focused on high-performance and cloud computing for the University of Cape Town, where he architects and operates HPC, GPU clusters, BeeGFS storage, InfiniBand fabrics and OpenStack deployments. He translates researchers’ needs into production-grade environments using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Packer and container platforms (Singularity/Docker), and integrates CI/CD workflows to deliver reproducible research stacks. Tim has led core infrastructure teams, acted as a national grid Registered Authority, and brings hands-on expertise across Linux, storage, and GPU-accelerated science that few university technologists match. Based in the Western Cape, he pairs deep operational discipline with a researcher-first mindset, often bridging the gap between complex middleware and practical, usable research services. An active contributor to institutional cloud and HPC initiatives, he also applies his skills to community service as Deputy Chairman of a local foundation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com (Hons) Information Systems, INF4024W - Cybersecurity, B.Com (Hons) Information Systems, INF4024W - Cybersecurity at University of Cape TownHigh School, High School at Eben Donges High School
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (66)
exporter8
slurm7
radiance7
siggraph7
beegfs7
unity3d7
geometry7
stereo7
packer-template7
openstack7
nvidia7
computer-vision6
cloud-init6
structure-from-motion6
3d-reconstruction5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Shadowphax/terraform-hpc-basic
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Basic deployment of a SLURM HPC on OpenStack using Terraform
Contributions:278 commits, 1 PR, 156 pushes in 4 months
slurmdeploymentopenstackterraformhpc
UCT-ICTS-HPC/singularity-openfoam
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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