John Gathright
John is the CTO of Tumalow, bringing decades of software development and management experience to the Tumalow team. He has designed software, at one time or another, for PDP-11s, IBM 360s, Fujitsu mainframes, a host of early PCs, the Air Force “supercomputer” on the island of Maui, a Beowulf cluster at the University of Hawaii, custom processors for Keck Observatory’s adaptive optics system, Sun workstations, instrument controllers running on VxWorks crates, the Amazon “elastic cluster” cloud service, and many others. While at Keck Observatory, he served as the Interferometer Operations manager and co-ordinated the team of engineers, programmers, and scientists responsible for observations with that NSF-funded instrument.