Jaroslava Schovancova
Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer at EDB
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolJaroslava Schovancova is a Staff Engineer based in Geneva with two decades of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, honed on exabyte-scale HEP infrastructures. She has led platform architecture, lifecycle management and automation at CERN—delivering resilient storage and compute services across Grid, Cloud and HPC environments while introducing AI-driven operational efficiencies. Her work spans hands-on DevOps, monitoring and workflow systems (PanDA/BigPanDAmon), cost modelling and crisis management, and she has a strong track record of mentoring engineering teams. Prior roles at Brookhaven and academic positions highlight her ability to translate research-grade requirements into production-grade services. Jaroslava pairs deep physics and CS training (PhD in subnuclear physics, MSc in CS/AI) with practical cloud and orchestration expertise, making her unusually effective at bridging scientific computing needs and enterprise-grade platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CERN School of ComputingAstrophysics, Astrophysics at The University of BonnMSc. Computer Science / AI, MSc. Computer Science / AI at Charles University
English, German, French
Github Skills (7)
edb8
distributed-computing7
jedi6
frontend6
rust6
user-interface5
monitoring4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jschovan/service_monitoring
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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