Steven Timm
Project Lead Virtual Facility Project at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Timm is a seasoned computing leader with nearly three decades of technical and leadership experience, currently leading Fermilab’s Virtual Facility Project to integrate dynamic provisioning and cloud bursting into the laboratory’s core facilities. He specializes in OS virtualization (Xen, KVM), cloud computing, and deploying highly available redundant Linux services, having led FermiCloud and long-running grid and compute services supporting tens of thousands of batch slots. His work blends hands-on systems engineering—procurement, large-scale provisioning, and active-active virtualization—with strategic evaluation of cost, policy, and logistics for commercial cloud use. As Data Management Lead for the DUNE experiment and a lead for testing and integration on HEPCloud, he bridges scientific collaborations and infrastructure delivery. Based in Batavia, IL, he pairs a PhD-level physics background with practical systems design, a combination that helps translate complex research requirements into reliable, auditable computing services. A less obvious strength is his consistent emphasis on measuring operational cost and policy impacts, not just technical capability, when shifting workloads to external clouds.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cedar Lake AcademyGrand Rapids Jr. AcademyPh.D, M.S., Physics, Ph.D, M.S., Physics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityM.S., Information Systems, M.S., Information Systems at Andrews University
Github Skills (31)
data-management9
storage9
network9
science8
php8
simulations8
topology7
distributed-systems7
management7
batch7
oms6
submission6
calculator6
recurly5
render5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
StevenCTimm/protodune
Apr 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
StevenCTimm/DataCatalogDocs
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
Documentation on DUNE Data Catalog specifications and access methods
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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