Profile
HPC engineer at NVIDIA working across GPU infrastructure, Linux, Slurm, and distributed training and inference. Building AI-assisted operations around infrastructure tools, persistent memory, and human approval controls, with a foundation in physics, mathematics, and scientific computing.
Experience
IT DevOps Engineer
NVIDIA
- Develop an internal AI operations assistant for NVHPC, connecting Slurm monitoring and issue alerts with an interactive Slack interface designed for team use.
- Design agent workflows that connect infrastructure tools, persistent memory and consolidation, and administrator approval and denial gates.
- Develop automated failure diagnosis and diagnostic job rerun workflows, both currently in progress.
- Work across GPU infrastructure, Linux, and Slurm for distributed training and inference workloads.
Associate HPC Engineer
Data in Science Technologies
- Supported administration and maintenance of Bright-based HPC clusters for clients across the US.
- Created Ansible roles to deploy and configure Prometheus exporters and Open OnDemand, and documented installation procedures for client services.
- Built a VirtualGL passthrough layer for NVIDIA Titan GPUs and helped configure Elastic Stack ingestion with Elasticsearch, Filebeat, and Kibana.
Research
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
- Administered a computational cluster and integrated OpenPBS to schedule MPI workloads.
- Built a Python/AiiDA interface to coordinate Quantum ESPRESSO phonon calculations and MPI execution through the cluster scheduler.
- Analyzed phonon convergence in silicon and aluminum using Python visualization workflows; presented the research at APS and WiSys.
Technical skills
- AI systems
- Agent workflows and tool integration · persistent memory and consolidation · human approval controls · Slack interfaces
- Infrastructure
- Linux · Slurm · GPU/HPC systems · distributed training and inference · Ansible · Prometheus
- Scientific computing
- Python · NumPy · Matplotlib · AiiDA · Quantum ESPRESSO · OpenPBS · MPI
Education
Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics
University of Wisconsin-Parkside