Research SWE at CHTC, MSCS at UW-Madison
stay hungry, stay foolish (yeah, I know it’s a cliché, but hey, it’s been sitting on my desk since middle school, judging my snack choices and bad ideas ever since)
Highlights
Distributed Systems
w/ Golang, C++
As a core developer of Pelican, an open-source data distribution system
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Backend w/ Java
Previously working on Java Spring Boot microservices at a Fortune 500 company
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Backend w/ Node.js
Former startup founding engineer, powering an AI-integrated website and web-scraping pipelines
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Hey! I'm Howard, a research software engineer at the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), working on Pelican, an open-source platform distributing PB-scale data.
I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from UW-Madison and has 2+ years of experience building robust software systems — from enterprise microservices built on Java Spring Boot to open-source distributed systems.
What I'm Proud of
Working on a global distributed system is exactly like teaching kindergarten.
You have kids (servers) with diverse backgrounds (hardware) and very particular parents (admins). My job is to be the calm teacher in the center of the chaos (ups and downs in the monitoring dashboard). I handle the occasional tantrum (a critical bug), investigate the mystery of the missing crayon (debug the root cause), and gently put the one kid hogging the spotlight (a noisy service) into self-amusement so the rest of the class can function.
It's wonderfully chaotic, but seeing them all work together is the ultimate reward.