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Cloud & on Premise HPC expert

Jouy-en-Josas, France
Only remote
Doctoral thesis - EPFL (2008)
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Only remote
Doctoral thesis - EPFL (2008)

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About me

With 20 years of experience in High-Performance Computing (HPC), I transitioned from academia to the private sector years ago. I have worked extensively with various technologies and continually strive to expand my knowledge. Proficient in both legacy and modern technologies.

HP ServersAmazon Elastic Compute CloudCloud ComputingCloud EngineeringNvidia CUDALinuxDevOpsDistributed Computing EnvironmentGitHubPython (Programming Language)Parallel ComputingAnsibleSupercomputingHigh Availability ClustersCloud Platform SystemHigh Performance ComputingInfrastructure as Code (IaC)GitLabGitGitlab-ciKubernetesHardware AccelerationSlurmHardware InfrastructureTerraformHP Certified
High Performance Computing (HPC)

Expertise in HPC environments including job schedulers (LSF, Slurm), parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS), interconnects (OPA, IB), containerization, and cluster management tools (HPCM, DMF, XCAT). Extensive experience in maintaining and optimizing supercomputer infrastructures such as the Jean Zay system.

Linux System Administration

Deep expertise in Linux system administration across multiple distributions, covering installation, configuration, and maintenance of complex computing environments.

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

Strong command of DevOps tools and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and Kubernetes, as well as CI/CD pipeline development using GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.

Scripting & Development

Proficiency in scripting and development using Python, Shell, and PowerShell for automation, deployment, and system administration tasks.

Containerization

Experience with container technologies including Singularity for HPC workloads, as well as implementation of automatic environments for image generation and deployment.

Scientific Computing & Parallel Programming

Solid background in scientific computing methods including Molecular Dynamics, Monte-Carlo simulations, and Density Functional Theory. Programming skills in Python, C, Fortran90/95, CUDA, and OpenCL for high-performance and parallel computing applications.

Monitoring

Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB for jobs monitoring and system performance tracking in HPC and cloud environments.

Messaging & Event-Driven Architecture

Knowledge of RabbitMQ for messaging and event-driven system design, applied in HPC and enterprise computing contexts.

Physics & Solid State Science

Academic background in solid state physics, diffraction, large instruments, and thermodynamics, supporting scientific computing and simulation work.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2024

Languages

EnglishFluentFrenchNative speaker

Project history

HPC Expert

HPE (as contractor)
Maintaining optimal performance of the Jean Zay supercomputer and storage environment. Responsible for incident qualification and resolution, software updates, installation and maintenance of software, libraries, compilers and debugging tools, as well as recommendations and optimization of the supercomputer and storage environment.

Environment:
Linux, Bash, Python, Gitlab, Ansible, Slurm, HPCM, DMF, Lustre, GPFS, XCAT, OPA.

HPC Expert

Aneo
HPC environments migration to the cloud and infrastructure deployment tools development. Participated in migration of Total Energy calculations to Azure, POC of SEM3D application on GCP using AMD Processors, Slurm Cluster deployment on AWS, and ElestiSlurm Multicloud concept experimentation using Terraform, Packer, and CI/CD pipelines.

Environment:
Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, Bash, Python, Github, Ansible, Slurm, Packer, Terraform, Kubernetes.

HPC Engineer

Renault Group
Responsible for smooth operation of HPC calculations for the Renault group, with activities within the ADAS and AD teams. Tasks included migration of calculations to GCP, jobs monitoring and automation using InfluxDB and Grafana, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, containerization with Singularity, Python script development for vehicle rolling replay, and generation and deployment of images on Azure.

Environment:
CentOS6/7/8, Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Bash, Python, GitLab, Windows, PowerShell, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Batch, LSF, Slurm, Singularity, Grafana, InfluxDB, S3, Scality.

Linux & HPC Engineer

TotaLinux
Responsible for addressing client needs in terms of technical solutions, from assembly to hardware, OS, and application configuration, up to delivery. Activities included audit and customer needs analysis, design and sizing of technical solutions, pre-sales technical assistance, project management, and collaboration with HPE. Participated in maintenance of a computing cluster at the Synchrotron Soleil.

Environment:
CentOS6/7, Bash, Python, Slurm, HPE, iLO4/5, PBS, GPU, HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility, NFS, BeeGFS.

Scientific Computing Engineer

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Responsible for installation, maintenance, benchmarking of scientific applications, user support, research, and teaching. Activities included deployment and maintenance of applications on an on-premise cluster, implementation of automatic application benchmarks on different architectures, development of a material simulation application at the atomic scale (Monte-Carlo, Molecular Dynamics), and third-year teaching.

Environment:
Linux, Bash, Python, Slurm, LSF, GPU, C, CUDA, OpenCL, Intel GPU, Fortran90.

Post-doctoral research associate

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Exploration and study of new materials with exploitable physical properties using electronic structure calculation applications based on density functional theory. Research included prediction of new materials by mean of first principal calculation, implementation of a library in an electronic structure calculation application, and writing of publications.

Environment:
Linux, Bash, Python, PBS, calcul DFT.

Post-doctoral research associate

Massachusetts University
Phase diagram simulation of a given material; implementation of potentials derived from the literature. Research included atomistic Monte Carlo simulation of silica phase diagram and development.

Environment:
Linux, Bash, Python, PBS, Fortran90.

Certificates

HPE Cray EX System Administration with HPCM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2023

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