Troy has been programming in C++ on various unices since 1993, when he often spent weekends downloading Linux onto 3.5” floppies over a 14.4k modem (kernel version 0.95) and manually calculating settings for his video card’s dot-clock timings.
His clients and employers have included Northrop Grumman Corporation, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (at New York University), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Commerzbank Captial Markets Corporation, ivillage.com, and Ovid Technologies.
Since 2005 he has been the principal of Resophonic Systems and with the department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, as the Software Architect At Large for the IceCube Collaboration, a kilometer-scale neutrino telescope experiment at the Admunden-Scott South Pole Station. In this position he has built the IceTray analysis framework, which has subsequently been adopted by the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope in France and the KM3NET collaboration.
He is a boost committer and contributor to the boost cmake, serialization and python libraries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from New York University.
Alex holds a BA in Physics from UC Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has over 10 years experience coding in C++ and is a Python fanatic. He has worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and the Universities of Maryland/College Park, Colorado/Boulder, and California/Berkeley, on topics including strontium cooling and atomic spectroscopy. When he’s not thinking about physics simulation techniques, magnetic monopoles or Q-balls, he can be found climbing rocks.