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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Fleet Operations and Automation, Annapurna Labs Machine Learning AccelerationEnhanced the health of AWS EC2 Tranium & Inferentia platforms. Worked on a cross-functional team to bridge gaps between silicon design, system design, and cloud operations. Focused on deep dives into customer impacting issues for EC2 instances. Targeted work in HBM stability, silent data corruption, and fleet power consumption. Designed & executed large scale experiments, which provided statistically significant insight into hardware behavior at-scale. Delivered results resulting in longer mean-time-to-failure and earlier defect detection.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Datacenter GPU & Accelerated Computing ValidationLead the at-scale operations team, which enabled volume validation on MI300Designed architecture of infrastructure and automation frameworks to accelerate SoC validation for HPC and AI accelerators.Leaded efforts in highly automated validation, reducing downtime of critical engineering systems and amplifying the impact of domain experts within the validation org.Developed several key services for tracking & increasing uptime of validation systems, enabling more test-hours and reducing time to market.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Access Firmware Quality AutomationDeveloped firmware and product test automation for IoT locks. Stressed device configuration and communications over Bluetooth, MQTT, and UART. Automated tests with Python, Appium, and RobotFramework. Delivered over a dozen new automated tests, saving hours of manual testing per firmware release. Delivered to framework to emulate mobile device interactions over BLE for MacOS/Linux, allowing more targeted testing

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Design for Test & Characterization - Z Systems & Power SystemsSquad Lead Vital-Product-Data, Engineering Data, and SEEPROMs squad for IBM DFTNegotiated internal architectures, standards and responsibilities Developed Vital-Product-Data interfaces, APIs, and standardsDeveloped Engineering Data compiler and standardsDeveloped microcontroller interfaces for on-product dataDelivered manufacturing SPI SEEPROM programming routinesCreated commonality and automation between productsEstablished linting and mock execution routines for automated bug detection in Python APIs

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Design for Test & Characterization - Z SystemsRe-architected Python based chip testing APIEstablished unit-testing frameworks for chip test APIsDeveloped Vital-Product-Data interfaces and standardsDeveloped system of fault analysis using Markov modelsDeveloped interface to automatically parallelize chip tests for multi-DUT environmentsDeveloped introspective APIs that build high-level interfaces from microcontroller binariesIdentified root cause of power anomalies in warehouse data

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Design for Test & Characterization - Z SystemsDeveloped faster logic test & characterization routines for Z processor lab workDeveloped machine learning model for logic tests to accelerate fault analysisDeveloped characterization data dashboards using IPython for real time analysis Aided in development & debug of linux driver for FPGA based test environment

State College, Pennsylvania, Us

Communication, Information, & Navigation; Synthetic Environments and Applications Lab (now visualization and decision support)Worked on an Agile team using Java and SQL to develop existing data visualization applicationDeveloped 3D applications for desktops and CAVEs (Java3D & Unity)Developed new ingest formats for existing visualization application Processed large data sets in Java & C including Bitcoin blockchains

University Park, Pa, Us

Gave tours to prospective studentsAssisted admissions office in setting up eventsAssisted admissions office in other areas as needed

University Park, Pa, Us

Tutored Computer Science/Engineering students in introductory C++Tutored IST students in introductory Java

Pasadena, California, Us