Andrew Kaluzniacki

Principal Software Engineer Scalable Systems @STR

Mr. Andrew Kaluzniacki has been with STR for 10 years and has been developing software for over 30 years. He has led software teams on several of STR’s larger projects, including SMISC, REDLINE, ALCHEMY, and soon HAYSTAC. He pioneered STR’s deployment of reliable systems on AWS: the SMISC system ran for nearly a year, and the Twitter collector for five years, with no downtime for either. Other systems that Andrew architected, built, and deployed have processed terabytes of data each day reliably over many years. Andrew led the STR effort to become ITAR/DFARS compliant on AWS, defining and implementing the security compliance architecture. He is familiar with many languages, including Python, Java, and C/C++, as well as the effective tools and development practices of the past 40+ years.\\\\n\\\\nHis current focus on ALCHEMY is architecting, developing, and introspecting a reliable distributed system that can be maintained and extended by developers who have not been on the project since its inception. Andrew believes that the cognitive focus of a project should be on STR’s novel solutions, rather than on tools and infrastructure that can be adopted from wider software industry practice.\\\\n\\\\nThe HAYSTAC project anticipates data sizes into the petabytes. Andrew\'s focus is to enable STR scientists and our academic partners to develop algorithms and a system that can reliably work with data at that scale. Mentoring non-software engineers in modern development practice, while letting them keep focus on their areas of expertise, is his goal.\\\\n\\\\nAs STR has grown, Andrew has worked to mentor software engineers and to develop practices across the company that will lead to the deployment of efficient, reliable solutions using current development practices, while allowing team members to concentrate on their areas of expertise-and of course to learn good software practice when that is appropriate.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n