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La Grange, Tx, Us

Driftwood, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Oversee HPC compute, storage, and software for an advanced x86 CPU core IP development group and the GPU IP development core group. 1500+ engineers impacted. Own forecasting, monitoring, and quality assurance of compute resources available for +100k batched jobs.• CI/CD DevOps flows utilize Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitOps to automate the software development life cycle for over 24 internally developed tools, doubling the efficiency of release time. • Designed and implemented Azure security group IAM sets, protecting data shared between 5000+ engineers.• Maintained the business forecasting of HPC compute resources, maximizing budget expenditures.• Trained teams on utilizing artificial intelligence portals to reference code and internal designs via custom tooling.• Orchestrated storage utilization monitoring with custom Python-based data harvesting tools, feeding Splunk dashboards and exposing petabytes of data available for deletion.• Designed compute resource monitoring with threshold alerts, reducing response time from 24 hours to 1 hour.• Administrator of several project management systems, including Jira, Confluence, and other in-house work-tracking portals, promoting stronger communication and bug tracking for the project.• Streamlined documentation, workflows, and management training, reducing new engineer onboarding times from days to a few hours.

Austin, Texas, United States

Served as Linux, Windows, and MAC systems administrator and the company’s data center solution lead, negotiating the full life cycle of all CPU and GPU-based HPC clusters onsite and in the cloud.• Managed compute resources with configuration as code and infrastructure as code with SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, and GitHub runners, reducing human error by 90%.• Designed and deployed Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, PagerDuty, and UptimeRobot observability services, responding instantly to unexpected events.• Leveraged broad knowledge of the administration of IBM GPFS, NFS, Oracle ZFS, and other networked storage protocols, allowing for 100% storage availability to engineers.• Cloud storage solutions for offsite and cloud application testing. Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure, and Wasabi fully implement disaster recovery plans.• Provisioned and utilized batched job schedulers Slurm, PBS, and Rocks, governing 100% fair-share compute.• Implemented container orchestration and management using Rancher, Docker CE, and Kubernetes, adding zero downtime solutions for application development.• Managed VMware infrastructure consisting of virtualized RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows servers, effectively quadrupling service to resource utilization.• Maintained snapshots, backups, and the complete life cycle of all VM instances via IaC flows.• Crafted policies on security, data governance, disaster recovery, and hardware budgeting and lifecycle procedures keeping IT budgets within forecast for 15 years.

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