About Sylabs™
Sylabs provides licensing, enterprise-level support, professional services, cloud services, and value-added tooling for performance-intensive, mission-critical compute environments and edge deployments.
Our Mission
We empower researchers, scientists, engineers, and developers by offering advanced, easy-to-use container runtime technology that is designed for both efficiency and security.
Our Vision
To secure mission-critical solutions and enable cutting edge research and facilitate rapid scientific discovery to solve mankind’s greatest challenges.
Our Values
Innovation
Lead the development of the industry’s most versatile, advanced open-source container runtime technology
Ensure that the patented Singularity image format (SIF™) remains the defacto standard for HPC containers by maintaining it and adding new capabilities as the landscape changes
Close critical security gaps in edge and IoT devices with patent-pending solutions
Maintain an OCI-compliant product roadmap that brings the benefits of cloud-native to the HPC space
Ease of Use
Design technology for easy integration into CI/CD workflows
Provide web-based interface to ensure non-practitioners can build and share containers
Prioritize features in our product roadmap that make our products easier to use
Reliability
Ensure stability of features and consistency in releases
Provide backporting of security and bug fixes
Offer long-term, enterprise-level support
Consistently contribute to and fund the open source project (started in 2017)
Millions of containers run every day on SingularityPRO
Our Team
Engineering
Adam Hughes
Chief Technology Officer
Hughes brings 17 years of professional experience as a software engineer and systems analyst with a focus on performance and code quality, and deep knowledge of operating system internals. A long-time advocate of open source software, Hughes became a core contributor to Singularity in 2018, with a focus on security and the integration of cloud services.
Dave Trudgian
Software Engineer
Dave Trudgian is the maintainer of SingularityCE and SingularityPRO. He has a PhD in Computer Science and over 15 years experience across Bioinformatics, Scientific Computing and HPC in academia and industry.
Mike Frisch
Software Engineer
Mike brings extensive experience with Linux cluster deployment (Beowulf) concepts and bare-metal provisioning, Linux systems-level software development in cluster technologies, web applications, TCP/IP client/server software development, and network file systems.
Adrian Wobito
Software Engineer / Frontend Developer
Adrian is a Software Engineer at Sylabs. His main focus is the design and development of specific web apps, and software engineering of the various applications.
Vadym L.
Senior Solutions Architect
Vadim enjoys working on a variety of Sylabs containerization projects, from architecting solutions to DevOps/SRE for our services portfolio across all the major CSPs. His experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines is a tremendous value to the development efforts with Singularity, SIF and OCI compatibilities.
Dmitry Harkavyi
Senior Software Engineer
Dmytri brings his diverse experience as a developer along with his familiarity with programming languages like Go, SQL, and Java for Sylabs’ open source projects such as SingularityCE and Remote Build Client, to our commcercial offerings such as Singularity Enterprise and the DevOps related work for Singularity Container Services.
Josué Balbuena
Solutions Architect
Josué joins Sylabs as an Electronic Engineer with specialty in Digital Systems. He has more than 10 years of experience developing desktop and web applications, linux administration and client relationship, for public and private organizations. He brings a wealth of Kubernetes and container experience with him and will help drive development of Sylabs products and services through a systematic understanding of customer needs.
Omer Preminger
Software Engineer
Omer brings his considerable experience in software development to the Sylabs team. Holder of a PhD in Linguistics, he spent several years working as a linguistics professor, but he has returned to his original calling: software. As a devotee of the Go programming language and an avid Linux user, Omer brings his decades worth of knowledge to assisting in maintaining and developing both SingularityCE and SingularityPRO.
Product & Sales
Keith Cunningham
VP Strategy and Business Development
With experience ranging from software development to product management and operational roles, Keith is honered to rejoin the professionally focused and commited Sylabs team. His goal is to build upon their credibility, well-established products and thought leadership by setting strategies to balance open source initiatives with the company’s professional offerings; with an emphasis on innovation, real world problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Melanie G.
Director of Sales
Having initially joined Sylabs in 2018, Melanie has returned as the Director of Sales. Bringing over 20 years of sales operations experience driving disruptive technologies to market, she is the cultivator of Sylabs’ client relationships and builder of partner and strategic alliances.
Danielle Grijalva
Administrative Manager
Danielle is a highly organized and resourceful executive assistant with extensive experience supporting high-tech executives. She is widely recognized for the ability to complete tasks in a timely, efficient, tactful and diplomatic manner.
Bill Ratel
Senior Brand Manager
Bill brings over a decades worth of branding and marketing experience working as a multi-disciplined designer with a passion for art and design and an eye for detail. He brings his talents to Sylabs to work on furthering the Sylabs brand, messaging and social media. Bill’s talents will extend into guiding usability and customer experiences.
Leadership
Gio Coglitore
CSO
Gio founded Rackable Systems in 1999 and built out much of the infrastructure that the internet runs on today. In addition to holding technology leadership roles at Sony and Facebook (Meta), he most recently founded RSTOR.
Jason Tuschen
CEO
Jason’s 27-year career as a Navy SEAL included multiple deployments and a decade in executive leadership positions throughout Naval Special Warfare. Several years after transitioning to the private sector, he was hired as Chief of Strategy by RSTOR Inc. and in April of 2020, he took over as CEO of Sylabs Inc.
Jason Torey
COO
Jason serves as COO and on the board of directors at Sylabs. Before joining Sylabs, he was the Chief of Staff and SVP of Operations at RSTOR and played a key role in the company’s operations and successful acquisition. Before RSTOR, he served twenty-five years as a Navy SEAL.