Career
Professional Summary
HPC Engineer with 9+ years of experience in system architecture and performance optimization for scientific and AI/ML workloads. My focus is on translating hardware capabilities into real-world application performance, particularly for AI/ML workloads. Experienced in supporting diverse research needs, from managing university clusters to building custom infrastructure from the ground up.
Professional Experience
- HPC Machine Learning Performance Engineer
Research Computing, Northeastern University | Jan 2025 - Present- Optimizing distributed ML workloads on production HPC clusters
- Performance analysis and benchmarking for AI/ML applications
- Supporting researchers with computational workflow optimization
- HPC Software Consultant
Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State | Jan 2017 - Dec 2024- 8 years supporting 500+ researchers across multiple disciplines
- Cluster performance optimization and user support
- Developed containerized environments for reproducible research (Singularity Hub contributor)
- System monitoring, resource allocation, and job optimization
- Parallel Computing Support Application Engineer
MathWorks | Summer 2021 (Internship)- Optimized parallel computing toolboxes for MATLAB
- Developed performance benchmarks for distributed computing
- Created documentation for HPC integration with MATLAB
Technical Expertise
- HPC and Infrastructure
- Schedulers: Slurm, PBS (Job arrays, dependency chains, resource optimization)
- Parallel Computing: MPI (OpenMPI, Intel MPI), OpenMP, CUDA
- Storage Systems: NFS, parallel filesystems, data management strategies
- Containerization: Singularity/Apptainer, Docker, Podman for HPC environments
- Automation: Ansible playbooks, bash scripting, system provisioning
- Monitoring: Performance metrics, resource utilization analysis
- Software Development
- Languages: Python, C/C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Shell scripting
- Version Control: Git, GitLab CI/CD
- Performance Tools: Profiling, optimization, bottleneck analysis
Projects & Competitions
- Independent HPC Infrastructure Lab (2025 - Present)
- Multi-node cluster with automated deployment via Ansible
- Comparative analysis of scheduler configurations
- Cost-benefit modeling for small-scale HPC deployments
- Open-source tools for cluster management
- 4D LiDAR SLAM Optimization (2024 - 2025)
- Computational Focus: Parallelized point cloud processing algorithms
- Optimized memory usage for large-scale sensor data
- ROS 2 simulation environment with distributed computing
- NIST First Responder UAS Indoor Challenge (2022)
- Award: 3rd place + First responder’s choice (Prize: $80,000)
- Design and develop a custom built quadcopter for GPS denied indoor scenarios and emergency situations
- Website: https://www.nist.gov/ctl/pscr/voxeltk6
- Interactive and Collaborative Robot Assist Project (2022)
- Pennsylvania State University (Robot Ethics and Aerial Vehicles Lab)
- Design and build robots and research models to evaluate human behavior in simulated environments
- 29th and 30th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (2022 and 2023)
- Team lead, design and build autonomous ground vehicle that carries up to payload of 20 lbs
- VFS Design-Build-Vertical Flight Student Competition (2021 and 2022)
- Award: 3rd place (2022), 1st place in preliminary reports + Best Computational Simulation Award (2021) (Prize: $500)
- Design and build a quadcopter and simulations
- Website: https://news.engr.psu.edu/2022/vertical-flight-student-competition.aspx
- 9th and 10th ESA Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (2017 and 2019)
- Developed parallel algorithms for complex trajectory optimization simulations
- Website: https://www.psu.edu/news/academics/story/penn-state-students-compete-solve-problem-trajectory-design
Education
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering Pennsylvania State University (2024)
- Minor in Computational Science
- Dissertation: Multiple Gravity-Assist Trajectory Design with Continuous-Thrust Synergetic Maneuvers
- MS in Aerospace Engineering Pennsylvania State University (2015)
- Minor in Computational Science
- Thesis: Optimal Orbit Raising Via Particle Swarm Optimization
- BS in Aerospace Engineering Pennsylvania State University (2013)