Presenter

Justas Balcas is a Software Engineer at ESnet, he focuses on developing advanced solutions for the SENSE project, particularly the Site Resource Manager, to enable seamless, software-defined network management for scientific data transfers. He also specializes in data caching and storage optimization to enhance performance and reliability for large-scale scientific workflows. With over 10 years of experience in system administration, network engineering, data caching, and distributed computing, he excels in designing and optimizing highly scalable on-prem Kubernetes clusters, migrating applications to Kubernetes, and integrating cutting-edge technologies. He enjoys tackling complex software and hardware challenges and prototyping innovative solutions to improve efficiency and scalability in scientific computing.