2020-07-02-joseph-schoonover.md

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title	The Research Software Engineer CEO
author	@vsoch
rse	Joseph Schoonover
phenotype	schoonovernumerics-rse-phenotype.png
excerpt	What prompts a research software engineer to become a CEO?
date	2020-07-02 01:30:00 -0700
external_media	https://us-rse.org/rse-stories-episodes-1/2020/rse-stories-joe-schoonover-episode-23.mp3
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resources	name url Scalable and elastic Fluid-Slurm-GCP HPC cluster https://help.fluidnumerics.com/slurm-gcp name url Hackathons via OS-Hackathon https://www.oshackathon.org/ name url HIP-Fortran project for GPU Acceleration of Fortran Apps https://www.fluidnumerics.com/products/hip-fortran name url Maintaining Scientific Software Series https://www.fluidnumerics.com/resources/maintaining-scientific-software

When you love technology regardless of the domain of science that is using it, it's often challenging to find a niche in a traditional academic role. In this episode of RSE Stories, We talk to Joe Schoonover, the CEO of Fluid Numerics. Joe found himself in this exact position after graduate school and trying out a postdoc, and embarked on an adventure to start his own company. In this episode we discuss cloud vs. HPC, what it's like to start your own company, and challenges in both of those spaces.