Gavin McCance

IT Architecture at CERN

I’m currently Chief IT Architect at CERN in Geneva

I lead a team of architects and service specialists to define our IT architecture strategy, maintain a coherent and consistent architecture across our diverse catalogue of IT services and ensure compliance with our best practices and standards

Strategy

Consistency

Best Practice

IT Architect

I designed the Petabyte-scale global data-transfer architecture for LHC computing and led the team that rearchitected the system that hundreds of our engineers use to manage the IT services of CERN

Service Delivery

I’ve been responsible for both the Petabyte-scale global data transfer system for the Worldwide LHC computing grid and for the primary Batch and HPC computing facillities that power the scientific computing of CERN

IT Manager

I’ve successfully led IT software development and operations teams for the critical computing services behind the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

SRE

I enjoy the challenge of running reliable services that can scale up to the needs of our users

Measuring and problem-solving is the core of what I enjoy at work

Software Engineer

I’ve written lots of software and services (mostly Python, Go and Java) and I like to use software to solve problems

Particle Physicist

Experimental particle physicist in a previous life

I love to measure and analyse things, and apply this analytical approach to my work