Shane Canon
Project Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Shane Canon is a project engineer in the Data and Analytics Services group at NERSC in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he focuses on enabling data-intensive applications on HPC platforms and engaging with bioinformatics applications. Shane has held a number of positions at NERSC, including leading the Technology Integration group, where he focused on the Magellan Project and other areas of strategic focus, leading the Data Systems group, and serving as a system administrator for the PDSF cluster, where he gained experience in cluster administration, batch systems, parallel filesystems, and the Linux kernel. He was also a group leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he architected the 10 petabyte Spider filesystem. Shane is involved in a number of projects outside of NERSC, including serving as the production lead on the KBase project, which is developing a platform to enable predictive biology. Shane holds a PhD in physics from Duke University and a BS in physics from Auburn University.