Tim Skirvin
HPC AI Architect at Fermilab - Computing Services and AI Division
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Skirvin is an HPC AI Architect with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale Linux-based compute and storage infrastructures for Big Science and higher education. He architects and implements highly available automation platforms—most notably a Puppet-driven system managing 3,200+ nodes and 150 PB of storage at Fermilab—while integrating containerization, job schedulers, and enterprise tooling like ServiceNow and Nagios. A practical systems programmer and automation engineer, he builds the glue between ops and research: lifecycle management scripts, remote console tools, and integrations for Condor, EOS, and dCache. His background includes building campus-wide monitoring and RPM distribution systems and modernizing legacy toolchains to Git and RPM workflows. Tim combines deep hands-on Unix/Linux administration with grant-aware project planning and mentoring, making him fluent in both the technical and organizational needs of research computing. He also contributes to open-source modules (e.g., updating Puppet firewall support for CentOS Stream 9), showing attention to compatibility and testing at scale.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
devops10
puppet10
iptables10
automation9
automations9
bash7
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Puppet Firewall Module
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on updating the module to support new operating system versions and configurations. They modified the firewall configuration parameters, service definitions, and package management scripts for compatibility with CentOS Stream 9 and other RedHat based systems. The commits also included updates to testing infrastructure and acceptance tests, along with general code and documentation improvements.
firewallsupportedpuppet
tskirvin/pyfnalsnow
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
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