David Southwick

CERN OpenLab

Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland

About

Senior Computing Engineer with 10+ years of first-hand experience in frontier research. Skilled in Analytics, Linux administration, HPC/HTC computing, and Dev-Ops leadership. Strong engineering background focused in hardware development, edge computing, and microservice deployment at scale.

Experience

  • CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Senior Computing Engineer
      May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

      Lead multinational teams in developing next-generation compute continuum for big-data sciences. Primary author of system architecture blueprint for European HPC Exascale deployments. Architect and lead developer of benchmarking suite for heterogeneous compute resources, storage solutions, and networks; now deployed globally across industry. Lecturer & Mentor on topics of HPC, CI/CD, and Cloud systems

    • Computing Engineer
      Sep 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 10 mos

      Senior Dev-Ops lead for large detector control software framework. Architect and Lead responsible for migration from monolithic to cloud-native production deployment with CI/CD and kubernetes. Expert on-call for ensuring high uptime and continuous enhancement.

  • Electrical Engineer at Fermilab
    Oct 2013 - May 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    On-call solutions for Meson facility with USCMS/ University of Iowa

  • Research Assistant at University of Iowa
    Mar 2011 - May 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Research and Development of future detector technologies, supporting High Energy Physics graduate program. Designed and testing of novel photonic circuit.