Kyle Marcus is a Software Engineer and a Researcher in the WorDS Center of Excellence, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD. His research interests include HPC, cloud computing, and programming languages. In previous industry experience, he has worked on large-scale distributed systems and embedded devices. When not programming, he can be found indulged in many of his hobbies including astrophotography and 3-D printing. He received the Graduate degree with the M.S. degree in computer science from the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. Contact him at krmarcus@ucsd.edu.