About me
      
        Caelen joined ParTec AG in November 2023 as a
        Software and Architecture Development Engineer. She is a DevOps and Python software development specialist, with
        particular experience in
        Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD and container/VM orchestration. She architected and deployed integration
        infrastructure for JUPITER
        (the first European exascale system), designing and implementing a Django/Redis-based, scalable network
        information server backed by Netbox to drive configuration, and containerizing and deploying the ParaStation
        stack
        on a Kubernetes/Helm driven runtime, with provisioning via Ansible.
      
      
        Prior to joining ParTec, she worked with ICHEC
          Dublin in 2023. At ICHEC, she was involved in developing software for hierarchical storage management
        (HSM). She participated in completing the IO-SEA
        WP4 Deliverable 4.3, working on the HSM API Hestia, and DevOps for these projects. Prior to this,
        she has worked on research projects in HPC, mathematical modelling (of EEG signals and PDEs), quantum computing,
        machine learning, and numerical computation of complex functions. She completed her undergraduate degree with
        Trinity College Dublin in 2020.
      
      
        Caelen is an avid reader of fiction, particularly science fiction with an optimistic outlook. Some favourites
        are "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the "Wayfarers" series by Becky Chambers, "The Daily Grind" by
        Argus, and "Ra" by qntm. She enjoys board games, in particular Splendor, bouldering and long
        walks. She can juggle 3 objects quite well, and 4 quite poorly. In addition to English, she can speak French,
        and Irish — dá mhaith leat caint as Gaeilge
        leí.