Owen Schillaci

M.S. Computer Science, University of Michigan

Owen Schillaci

Software engineer building reliable systems, developer tools, and infrastructure for real users.

M.S. Computer Science student at the University of Michigan with experience building production HPC software, backend systems, and research tools.

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Featured Projects

Selected systems work with the strongest production and research-computing context.

Production HPC dashboard

HPCMosaic

Paper · HUST @ SC26

Production HPC dashboard for monitoring Slurm jobs, queue state, cluster resources, quotas, and HPC services.

ResultDeployed across Grace, FASTER, Launch, and ACES
Key contributionRedesigned and engineered the production Open OnDemand dashboard deployed across Texas A&M HPRC clusters.
  • React
  • Python
  • Slurm
  • Linux
  • Open OnDemand
  • SQLite
DemoGitHub

Scientific workflow application

Drona

Paper · HUST @ SC26

Open OnDemand workflow application for creating, submitting, and monitoring Slurm workflows.

Result100+ monthly users, thousands of job submissions
Key contributionMaintained production workflow tooling for 100+ monthly users and thousands of scientific workflow job submissions, including backward-compatible migrations for configuration, filesystem, and legacy job history updates.
  • Open OnDemand
  • Slurm
  • Linux
  • SQLite
  • Python
DemoGitHub

Full-stack tutoring platform

Theo Tutoring

Built by 12 students in a 10-week program

Worked as a backend developer on Teamup’s Apps for Good tutoring platform, designing RESTful API endpoints and database models for authentication, session scheduling, and role-based access for tutors and tutees.

  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs

Team software project

Fast Food Point-of-Sale System

$1M realistic sales data simulation

Led a team of five in building a point-of-sale system with order processing, sales tracking, Agile sprints, optimized MySQL queries, and a CSV-based simulation for customer ordering behavior.

  • MySQL
  • SQL
  • Agile
  • CSV

Experience

May 2025 - August 2026

Software Developer

Texas A&M University - High Performance Research Computing

2 papers accepted · HUST @ SC26

  • Developed and maintained Drona, an Open OnDemand application supporting 100+ monthly users and thousands of scientific workflow job submissions on Slurm-based HPC systems.
  • Redesigned and engineered HPCMosaic, the production Open OnDemand dashboard deployed across Texas A&M’s Grace, FASTER, Launch, and ACES HPC clusters.
  • Engineered a backward-compatible migration system for Drona, automating configuration updates and filesystem migrations while moving legacy job history to persistent database storage.

August 2024 - May 2026

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Texas A&M University - Brain Networks Lab

  • Built a DQN-based sensorimotor agent and investigated how richness of motor primitives affects an agent’s ability to achieve sensory invariance and generalize across environments.
  • Designed and evaluated a temperature peak prediction model for Ondol-heated homes.
  • Achieved less than 0.14 degrees Celsius MAE using cross-validated ridge regression and physics-informed feature engineering.

August 2023 - December 2024

Peer Teacher

Texas A&M University

  • Mentored 200+ freshmen in Python programming, debugging, and problem solving.
  • Collaborated with faculty to identify student challenges and improve classroom instruction.

Research

August 2024 - May 2026

DQN-based sensorimotor agent

Built and studied a sensorimotor agent to investigate how richness of motor primitives affects sensory invariance and generalization across environments.

August 2024 - May 2026

Temperature peak prediction for Ondol-heated homes

Designed and evaluated a predictive model using cross-validated ridge regression and physics-informed feature engineering, achieving less than 0.14 degrees Celsius MAE.

Selected Publications

HUST @ SC26 · Accepted · 2026

HPCMosaic: Adaptive Dashboard for an Evolving HPC User Base

  • HPCMosaic
  • HPC dashboards
  • Open OnDemand
  • User experience

HUST @ SC26 · Accepted · 2026

What Your Job Queue Isn’t Telling You: Workflow Monitoring with Drona

  • Drona
  • Workflow monitoring
  • Slurm
  • Open OnDemand

Presentations

GOOD Conference

Domain-Aware Workflow Monitoring in Open OnDemand

Presented work demonstrating integrated CPU/GPU monitoring, Slurm job controls, and domain-specific workflow progress in Drona.

Technical Skills

Programming

  • Python
  • C++
  • C
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • SQL

Web & Backend

  • React
  • Vue
  • Flask
  • Django
  • REST APIs

Systems

  • Linux
  • Slurm
  • Open OnDemand
  • Bash

Data & Tools

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Git

About Me

I am a computer science graduate student focused on reliable backend systems, research computing infrastructure, and developer tools.

I am especially interested in HPC platforms, workflow automation, observability, and software that helps technical users move faster with fewer rough edges.

August 2026 - May 2028

University of Michigan

M.S. in Computer Science

August 2022 - May 2026

Texas A&M University

B.S. in Computer Science

Minors: Math, Statistics | GPA: 3.81

Let's Connect

The fastest way to reach me is email. I am also available through LinkedIn for software engineering, systems, infrastructure, and research opportunities.

University of Michigan
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