Cloud & HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Minal Kapadia

Cloud & HPC Infrastructure Engineer

845-***-**** Mahwah NJ

https://www.linkedIn.com/in/mik96

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SUMMARY

Dedicated IT professional with extensive background in multi-site operations computing field who delivers highly effective hardware support services for an extensive HPC Linux product portfolio. Effective at meeting customer needs and deliver service with product excellence. Agent for change who is skilled at using benchmarking, best practices, and technology to improve process within budget. Hands on experience with:

Deliver technical solution

HPC Linux product

Release management

Cycle time reduction

Critical infrastructure

Agile systems- AI/ML

Cluster management

Engineering process

Compute update process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RCH SOLUTIONS, REMOTE 2022-2026

HPC Engineer

Shaped transformation proposal aims to achieve system modernization, focusing on migrating legacy workloads to cloud-native architectures on GCP to improve scalability with 400 employees and sales of $80 million.

• Streamlined the migration of legacy HPC stacks to GCP by implementing custom Terraform providers for automated scaling; system updates that eliminate 15+ hours of manual overhead per week.

• Engineered and tuned a multi-petabyte WEKA Data Platform filesystem within an enterprise HPC cluster, eliminating traditional parallel I/O bottlenecks and reducing overall data-access latency for large-scale production workloads.

• Optimized job scheduling using Slurm by explicitly defining node and task-per-node constraints, ensuring efficient communication paths and avoiding cross-chassis latency.

• Deploy robust technical solutions for data scientists AI/ML simulation Linux-based clusters, optimizing module system job scheduler and data storage to support large-scale lifecycle science applications.

• Orchestrated a high-availability Interactive Computing Portal (Open OnDemand) integrating RStudio Server and VSCode with Slurm; reduced researcher environment setup time by 90% while maintaining 99.9% session stability for long-running genomic workflows. Mentoring a junior engineer on cluster management.

DELL TECHNOLOGIES, Houston, Texas 2021-2022

Principal Engineer, Service Delivery

Managed 2 locations with 600 employees and sales of $180 million. Plants produced high intensity planes. Developed and implemented rationalization strategies for global acquisitions. Led major capital and new product programs.

• Managed Linux OS Blockpoint Image for 100+ users test packages, document.

• Provided support to the Boeing 200 customers on Linux Workstation and Virtual Machine install through Red Hat Satellite provisioning server.

• Managed multi-node NetApp FAS clusters utilizing NetApp ONTAP to design, provision, and maintain high-performance enterprise storage architectures ensuring 99.9% environment stability

• Streamlined HPC Bright Cluster Manager, PbsPro, Python and Gitlab/Ansible coding products for about 4000 compute capacity updates.

• Deployed software on HPC grid for 10000+ optimized batch job scheduling.

INTEGRATED ENTERPRISES, Houston, Texas 2017-2021

Technical Specialist, Contract.

Unified strategic model for 5 field operations in specialty printing with 400 employees and sales of $50 million

• Implemented cost control practices to achieve 11% cost improvement.

• Directed new product design, deploy, and recovery team that increased new product introductions by 90% and maintained on time delivery rate at 95%.

• Engineered backup solutions from the ground up in Avamar/Netbackup.

• Orchestrated disaster recovery, data protection, and backup integration strategies across complex, interoperable storage environments involving both NetApp and Dell storage systems.

• Supported cloud-first IT environment by reducing, CI/CD pipeline feedback.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, Houston, Texas 2016-2017

HPC Senior Engineer

Headed stand-alone chemical plant producing over 400 different products used in the oil extraction industry. Consolidated manufacturing from 2 European acquisitions.

• Deployed 40+ Lustre software, hardware on bare metal in Shell Data Center .

• Configured virtual storage to Red Hat KVM for 100 training lab sessions.

• Introduced break through technology in high-speed software OEM and automated work cells, resulting in over $4 million annual savings.

• Generated $1.7 million annual savings from international acquisitions by consolidating worldwide phosphor production.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, COMMERCE

Bombay University, Maharashtra, India

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

GCP Cloud DevOps GCP Cloud Associate

AWS CLOUD Practitioner

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