Dr Manish Modani

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in High Performance Computing and AI solutions.
Proven track record in cross-team collaboration.
Strong background in data analytics and quantum computing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a High Performance Computing and AI specialist with a focus on scientific and technical applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

High Performance ComputingArtificial IntelligenceTechnical SalesBusiness EnablementPerformance AnalysisTechnical SupportHpc BenchmarkingSales SupportApplication SpecialistData AnalyticsDevelopmentOperationalizationOptimization

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApplied MathematicsBenchmarkingCComputational ChemistryCustomer ServiceData AnalysisData MiningDistributed SystemsEmotional IntelligenceFortranInterpersonal CommunicationLinuxLinux KernelMachine Learning

About

Technical Lead for the strategic accounts & Thought leader, experienced in solving complex challenges using Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing (HPC), HPC+AI, Quantum Computing, Visualization etc. (1) Identify the key challenge and Business Advantage (2) Proof of Concept (3) Demonstration of competitive performance & price/performance advantages I lead cross-team collaborations including Research, Development, Business Partners & Business Development teams to derive the solution. My key strength is to learn, lead, colloborate (across geography) and deliver. Skills: Data Scientists, Meteorologists, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Quantum Computing Simulations, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Convergence of HPC and AI, Solution Architect, Application Specialist, Performance, Price/Performance, Performance Projections, Accelerated Computing Domains: Insurance, Agriculture Technology (AgTech), Fluid Dynamics, Molecular Dynamics, Air Pollution, Weather, Quantum Computing

Experience

Nvidia

Principal Solution Architect

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

As a Lead SA for strategic accounts & missions of national interests (NSM, NQM, NMM), my key responsibilities are (not limited to), to Evangelize and engage for large data center requirement generation, Architecture Solution, AT & Top500 submission to solve, unsolved problems and their acceleration related to HPC, AI/ML/DL, Data Analytics, Quantum computing, HPC+AI etc.

High Performance ComputingArtificial IntelligenceData AnalyticsQuantum Computing

The weather company, an ibm business

Technical Sales Lead, India/South Asia

Feb 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working as the Technical Lead for India/South Asia, my key responsibilities are (not limited to), evangelize the weather company offerings/products, its applications in various segments, Proof of Concept (POC), Business Enablement.
#Weather #Precision Agriculture #Energy #Aviation #Health #Logistics #Datascince #Artificial Intelligence #HighPerformanceComputing

Technical SalesBusiness EnablementProof of Concept

Ibm india pvt ltd

2 roles

Lead, Technical Computing

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

While working as a Technical Lead, Performance Engineering at IBM. My key responsibilities to lead the team for:
Performance Analysis (on existing IBM-Accelerated-GPU systems):
Analyse and resolve the performance bottleneck for the given applications/workloads
Pre-GA (General Availability) Work on IBM Open-Power Accelerated (GPU) Systems by bringing up those systems and performance characterization
Produce Price/Performance collaterals with competitive architectures for applications related to various domains e.g Fluid Dynamics, Genomics, Weather, Financial Analysis, Mathematical Algorithm etc.
Performance Projections: Project the performance for various High-performance computing applications on IBM-upcoming accelerated systems
Pre & Post sales Technical support to the various clients
Collaboration: Drive collaborations with Sales, Research & Development groups (e.g. NVIDIA, STFC, Academics ) to have the best HPC ecosystem by handling all three different worlds to their best.

Performance AnalysisPerformance ProjectionsTechnical Support

Advisory Software Architect

Oct 2010 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

HPC Benchmarking, Porting, Development, Pre & Post Sales Support
Key Wins Ministry of Earth Science, Indian Institute of Science, GENCI, Science and Technical Facilities Council, UK

HPC BenchmarkingDevelopmentSales Support

The science and technology facilities council uk

HPC Application Specialist & Consultant

Sep 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Daresbury, Warrington, United Kingdom

Worked, as a only application specialist onsite from IBM, on a variety of application areas to include but not limited to weather prediction and climate modeling, computational chemistry, insurance loss modeling and risk analysis. These applications involve both heterogeneous computing acceleration and large data analytics on parallel systems in anticipation of delivery of data centric systems.
Worked as a developer, analyst & optimizer for compute and data intensive applications and workflows; novel algorithms to exploit these massive-scale systems; High Performance Computing/High Performance Analytics (Big Data) system software & resource management and collaborate with hardware team for optimal system performance.
Key Projects:
Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
Oasis Loss Modelling Framework
Scalability/Analysis of weather models (e.g. Gungho/UM/WRF) at scale
Compute intensive codes (e.g. DL_MESO, CASTEP) on Accelerators (Intel Mic/GPU)
Patient Cost Benchmarking: Data Analytics using IBM’s SPSS Modeller
Energy Aware Computing

Application SpecialistData AnalyticsComputational Chemistry

Flagstone reinsurance holdings ltd.

Principal Research Analysts

Apr 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, India

Development, Parallelisation, Operationalization of the Hazard Module of Catastrophic Model (e.g. Wind foot print model, powerlaw model etc. ) to estimate the real time hazard from Hurricanes.
Numerical Weather Prediction Models (e.g. WRF)

DevelopmentParallelizationOperationalization

Cray inc.

Application Speciallist

Feb 2006 – Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · NCMRWF, NOIDA, INDIA

Porting, Optimization, Operationalization & Benchmarking of Mathematical Models related to Meteorology (e.g GFS, WRF etc. ) and Fluid Dynamics on CRAY and CDAC's PARAM High Performance Systems.

DevelopmentParallelization