Ryan Weldon Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, Us

Member of Applications Engineering team focused on partner enablement for Instinct GPUs and APUs

Mountain View, California, Us

- Manage small FAE team responsible for end-customer and OEM engagements, including HW support/RMA, onsite customer deployments, and end-to-end solutions (e.g. manageability, orchestration) - Lead all OEM partner technical engagements, which include Office of the CTO evaluations, OEM go-to-market, and engineering-level server integration of the PCIe-based GroqCard accelerator with OEM BIOS and BMC customizations- Responsible for solutions architecture discussions with strategic lead customers - scope includes the GroqCard AI/ML accelerator, network, storage, manageability, and performance optimizations- Coordinate across product, engineering, and project management to ensure customer requirements and schedule needs are prioritized and remain on schedule. Develop customer messaging and coordinate recovery plans when unexpected schedule slips or issues occur.- Drove two next-gen architecture teams that define the security and virtualization architectures for future products. Researched NIST standards and industry specifications to define an alternative solution for card-based HW Root of Trust, enabling an immediate savings of >$500k and reducing the engineering development/validation burden. Created the initial virtualization proposal with modifications to several existing IP blocks that became the foundation of the accelerator virtualization architecture- Develop multiple custom Ansible roles that enable config management of Groq SDK releases and GroqRack configuration (OS and network)- Company representative to DMTF industry standard working group with recognized contributions to the Accelerator Management specification that enabled the Groq architecture to be modeled accurately for standards-based integration with OEM BMCs

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Define and develop test strategy for Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters based on in-depth analysis of customer specifications, industry standard specifications, and product support plans. Direct customer engagement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise R&D engineering management, architects and development engineers. Create test automation software in Python and Robot Framework.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Design in focused OEM account manager responsible for engagement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise engineering, marketing, product management, and supply chain for all programs executed out of the HPE Houston campus. As part of the $140M account team, closed key design wins and led product launches including the ThunderX2 ARM-based datacenter processor used in Apollo 70 HPC servers (first ARM server on HPC Top500 - Sandia National Labs Astra cluster) and over 10 new SKUs for FastLinQ Ethernet adapters supported in ProLiant, Synergy, and Cloudline servers.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

OEM design in focused engineer responsible for FastLinQ Converged Network adapters supported on Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers. Direct engagement with customer’s R&D engineers/leadership in the network adapter, platform firmware (UEFI/BIOS), HPE OneView, and Synergy switch teams to support future product opportunities, in-development products, and field sustaining escalations.

Houston, Texas, Us

Lead strategic engineering engagement with VMware to enable vSphere on ProLiant servers. Coordinate with members of the office of the CTO and advanced engineers from HPE and VMware to deliver next generation solutions. Troubleshoot field escalations and development issues. Analyze and evaluate pre-release products (e.g. VMware vSAN, NSX) to determine opportunities for collaboration and impact to HPE portfolio.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Architect for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V reference architectures including the initial release of vStart solutions targeted at both small/medium business and large enterprise customers. These solutions include best practices and configuration details for the hypervisor, virtualization management software, servers, network, and storage. Led all engineering efforts for the initial release of VIS Self-Service Creator (OEM rebranding of what is now VMware vRealize Automation).

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Lead engineer on several storage products including the Dell/EMC CX storage arrays, Brocade FC SW200E, PowerVault NX1950. and PowerVault MD3000/i.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Project management and personnel management in combat communications unit supporting telecom networks and Air Traffic Control operations. Deployed to LSA Anaconda, Balad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Houston, Texas, Us

Defined and executed test scenarios to verify error recovery and simulate hardware device failure in Fibre Channel SANs including storage arrays, servers, switches, and tape backup for product verification and compatibility testing

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Developed software suite using Access and C to process and analyze mainframe text files and input from analysts to support the creation of personnel tests for over 300,000 Air Force personnel. Developed primary tool for specialists to analyze training requirements of every enlisted career in USAF.