Jigar Halani

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of expertise in Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure.
Best Technical Manager award from Mr. Azim Premji in 2017.
Key member of Gujarat Government’s AI task force.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI Infrastructure and High Performance Computing for enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureAi InfrastructureAi - Ml/dlHpcDataPublicityOrganizingGrid ComputingCluster ComputingClusterVirtualization

Other Skills

Applicablity of AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBioinformaticsCAECFDCUDACloud ComputingComputational ModelingData CenterGPFSGPUGangliaGlusterGrid

About

As Director of Enterprise Solutions Architecture & Engineering at NVIDIA, South Asia, Jigar drives innovation in Supercomputing, Big Data, and AI Infrastructure. He brings 20 years of expertise in architecting and deploying cutting-edge solutions that thrive in complex and evolving environments. Prior to NVIDIA, Jigar's leadership at Wipro's HPC & Big Data practice for India earned him the Best Technical Manager award from Mr. Azim Premji in 2017. Jigar's strategic insights are highly valued across the industry; he has served on the HiPC conference steering committee, the CII Data Center advisory board, and the Gujarat Government’s AI task force. He earned his B. Tech in Computer Science in 2005.

Experience

Government of gujarat

Gujarat AI Taskforce core Team member

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Joined Gujarat AI Taskforce core Team to help support in building AI-first Gujarat, covering skills, Data, AI Infrastructure, policies & ecosystem of AI startups

AI InfrastructureDataPolicies

Nvidia

3 roles

Director - SAE Asia South

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Leading India’s best pre-sales team (Datacenter business covering range of products and platform - Visual computing, Infrastructure & AI)

Pre-salesSolution ArchitectureAI Infrastructure

Director - Solution Architect & Engg.

Promoted

Sep 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Working with India's smartest solution architect & Engg. team (AI - ML/DL, HPC, Visual computing)

AI - ML/DLHPCVisual computing

Senior Manager - Solution Architect (Deep learning/ HPC/ Visual computing)

Jan 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Wipro infotech

4 roles

Practice Head - HPC/Big-data/ML

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Dec 2017 · 8 mos

Practice Manager - HPC & Big-Data (Infra) India & ME/KSA

Oct 2012 – Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Technical Consultant-HPC

Jul 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Technical Specialist - HPC

Dec 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

Managing Wipro's APAC business for HPC with the help of small but smart team. ;)

Hipc

Volunteer - HiPC

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 2 mos

HiPC is an international meeting on high performance computing. It serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the high performance computing area.
I have worked with conference on Publicity, organizing IRUS sessions, Panel discussions, Sponsorship, BOF sessions and cont. to work!

PublicityOrganizing sessionsPanel discussionsOrganizing

Talentain technologies pvt. ltd.

Associate Architect - HPC

Jun 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

Working on Designing solution on Parallel file system/Grid computing/Cluster Computing.
Also responsible for POC/Deployment at different customer place.
Customer which i focus includes Media and Animation, MCAE, Bio-informatics and BFSI

Parallel file systemGrid computingCluster Computing

Progression infonet pvt. ltd.

Engineer - HPC

Jan 2005 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Was focusing on Cluster/Grid/Virtulization Deployment, supporting customer . Was also part of the core/evaluation team to evaluate different types of software/application for the customer.

ClusterGridVirtualization