Sam Skillman

Current Status

Interested in helping organizations solve important and challenging problems related to large scale datasets, cloud computing, HPC, and AI.

Prior Status

2022-2023: Cloud Architect at Citadel helping architect storage solutions.

2015-2022: Joined Descartes Labs as employee #2 and went on to lead the engineering team in building a petascale geospatial platform.

2013-2015: Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at SLAC / Stanford. Part of the Dark Sky Simulations collaboration that performed the first trillion particle N-body cosmology simulation.

2007-2013: PhD in Astrophysics at University of Colorado, Boulder. DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Studied clusters of galaxies using adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics + n-body simulations.

2003-2007: BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College

Previously Seen on the Internet

A Python API for Earth - SciPy 2017

Processing a Petabyte of Planetary Pixels with Python - SciPy 2016

SciPy 2014 Lightning Talk - Remotely Analyzing a 32TB file on the WWW