Warren Smith
Software Architect at The Weather Company, an IBM Business
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWarren Smith is a software architect and researcher with 14 years of professional experience designing and operating distributed, cloud, and high-performance systems, currently leading architecture at The Weather Company (an IBM Business). His career bridges federal labs, academia, and industry—shaping national research infrastructures like Chameleon, XSEDE, FutureGrid, and contributing to early Grid and Globus efforts. He focuses on resource management, scheduling, data provenance, and cloud infrastructure, with practical experience deploying OpenStack, Hadoop, and tactical cloud solutions for disaster response. Warren combines hands-on system building with operations and management, having led teams and production deployments since the early 2000s. He holds advanced degrees in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, bringing deep academic rigor to production-scale problems. An oft-overlooked strength is his history of developing prediction and provenance services that helped make large distributed testbeds more trustworthy and usable for real scientific workflows.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityM.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (4)
hpc8
portal8
chameleon7
django6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
OGF-GLUE/JSON
May 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year 7 months
XSEDE/ipf
Feb 2012 - Sep 2015
The Information Publishing Framework for publishing HPC/HTC resource information to XSEDE Information Services.
Contributions:305 commits in 3 years 7 months
hpc
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