Gavin McCance

compute and IT
architecture at CERN

I enjoy using software and technology to enable science

Gavin McCance

I'm an IT architect with 22 years experience in the architecture, development and operation of globally-distributed Big Data and Compute services.

I'm currently based in Geneva working at CERN providing IT services for the Large Hadron Collider high-energy physics experiments.

My passion is to deploy reliable services that can scale to the needs of our users

Technical Manager

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

IT Architect

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

Big Data and Big Iron

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

Site Reliability Engineer

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

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Picture: Higgs Boson candidate, CMS Collaboration © 2012