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Pursuing his passion to figure out the inner workings of complex systems, Ryan Taylor completed a M.Sc. in particle physics with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2009, and joined the University of Victoria Research Computing Services team shortly thereafter, where he is now a senior Advanced Research Computing (ARC) specialist. He has expertise in areas including grid computing and storage, cloud computing, content distribution technologies such as CVMFS, and container orchestration technologies in the Kubernetes ecosystem. As the leader of the Canadian CVMFS National Team, he guides the architecture and deployment strategy of the infrastructure which provides the Compute Canada ARC software stack and other content to sites and users across Canada and the global research community.
