Pearl Street Technologies
John Kieffer is a Senior Computational Software Engineer I at Pearl Street Technologies, where experience includes roles as a Computational Software Engineer II and a Computational Software Engineer from May 2021 to the present. Prior to joining Pearl Street Technologies, John Kieffer worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering from August 2018 to December 2020 and as a Product and Support Specialist at Wilderness Trace Solar, Inc. from February 2016 to June 2018. Academic achievements include a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Math and Physics from Centre College. John Kieffer completed a GED at Dublin Coffman High School in 2010.
Pearl Street Technologies
Pearl Street Technologies, Inc. is an early stage startup out of Carnegie Mellon developing next-generation software for the electric utility industry. Pearl Street Technologies, Inc. is based in Pittsburgh, PA and backed by the National Science Foundation, ARPA-E, the Department of Energy, and Incite Labs, they are building tools to make the grid more reliable, more secure, and greener. They development activities include software for grid planning with high renewable penetration, parallelized optimization tools to find the most cost and energy efficient dispatch of grid resources, and solutions to detect targeted cyber attacks on the grid.