Ankit Sharma

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 13 years of experience in High Performance Computing.
Expertise in GPU/Accelerator technologies from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.
Proven track record in managing cross-functional teams for product launches.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a High Performance Computing expert with a focus on GPU and accelerator technologies.

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13+ years of experience in High Performance Computing (Compute Accelerators) Understanding of High Performance computing Clusters. Understanding of HPE High Density ProLiant Server.(Rack/Tower/Apollo/Edgeline/Synergy/Mission Critical ) Knowledge in INTEL and AMD Processor families. Knowledge in NVIDIA/AMD(Accelerators/GPUs), INTEL KNC/KNL Co-processor, INTEL FPGA technologies, Xilinx Alveo accelerators Understanding of VDI solutions for NVIDIA GRID GPUs - VMware vDGA/vSGA/vGPU, Citrix Pass-through . Understanding of VDI solution for AMD FirePro GPUs - Hardware Virtualization MxGPU. Hyper-V, vSphere, Xen Server- VDI product solution. Experience in High Performance Computing Micro benchmarks for NVIDIA/AMD(Accelerators) and Intel( KNC/KNL based Co-processors). Intel C/C++/ Fortran compilers/MPI/MKLs , AMD tools(ACML, APP SDK), NVIDIA tools(CUDA), Open Source tools(gcc, OpenMPI and BLAS) Linux / Windows installation, configuration, administration & troubleshooting. Systems management tools Like Ganglia,BMC, IPMI (HPE ILO). System management provisioning and deployment using HPE CMU. NVIDIA,AMD and Intel accelerator/co-processors monitoring tools.

Experience

Hewlett packard enterprise

7 roles

Senior Engineering Manager (GPU/Accelerators, HPC/AI Servers)

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Engineering Manager (Compute GPU/Accelerators - AI & HPC )

Promoted

May 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Expert Technologist - Compute Accelerators HPC/AI

Nov 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Engineering Program Manager - AI and HPC Accelerated Compute

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Executing New Product Introduction/Sustaining for GPU/Compute Accelerator/FPGA business line with HW, SW, Test, Manufacturing and other cross-functional teams managing required deliverables throughout NPI/Sustaining lifecycle
Work with Product Management & Strategy team to facilitate product requirements planning & review.
Participating in Plan of Record Development for Accelerator/FPGA.
Work closely with Product Managers and Product Marketing to ensure successful new product launches and other revenue generating initiative.
Build and maintain a complete program schedule, make it constantly visible to management and key stakeholders, and drive it through to completion.
Work directly with GPU/Accelerator/FPGA vendors(NVIDIA/Intel/AMD) to review test data/design guides for all current and new technology.
Run weekly meetings with Core/Server HW/Dev/Test teams. Communicate useful info and drive actions on CRs/Others.
Establish good relationships with ROM/iLO firmware/Dev/Test/HW/Diagnostics/Marketing/Accelerator Vendor teams.
Manage engineering development & qualification efforts across all ProLiant Server teams for accelerator enablement.
Grant engineering ship release approval for all accelerator devices for HPE ProLiant Servers.
Issue engineering/customer advisories, when required for any accelerator device.
Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and have success firmly in my focus.
Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.

Senior Specialist HPC Accelerator/GPU Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Specialist HPC Accelerator/GPU Engineer

Dec 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs

Intermediate HPC Accelerator/GPU Engineer

May 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Global Level-3 support for HPC NVIDIA accelerators,experience in productization and support for NVIDIA accelerators used in High Performance Computing cluster environments.Troubleshooting and closing escalated/critical issues related to accelerators.
Here my key duties are:
Productization and provide customer support for NVIDIA accelerators on HP ISS servers on Linux, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft Windows operating system.
Productization and release NVIDIA drivers and firmware on supported devices.
Exposure in running HPC application benchmarks on NVIDIA accelerators to measure cluster's performance on customer request.
Expertise in installing all types of NVIDIA hardware on HP Prolient and Workstations
Deploying and provide support for RemoteFX virtualization solution from Microsoft on HP servers with accelerators and measure OpenGL application performance.
Experience in deploying and testing HP's Remote Graphics functionality on HP's servers for NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs by running OpenGL applications.
Experience in setting up Software Delivery Repository (SDR) online repository for providing access to various Linux Software Products E.g. “Mellanox OFED VPI Drivers and Utilities” for all supported Linux Operating Systems.
Provided technical web-based training to L2 support team worldwide in testing and supporting NVIDIA Quadro's accelerators on HP Prolient DL series server.