Jan 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Developing a portfolio of services that enable our Enterprise customers to unlock business value from public cloud.

Aug 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · Austin area, texas

• Teaching Computer design and architecture
• Supervising and mentoring graduate students in PhD-level research

Apr 2013 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Flux7 was acquired by NTT Data Services on December 30, 2019.

Oct 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Create a scalable platform for system-level performance and power analysis of ARM based microservers
• Develop a distributed benchmarking environment to automatically collect and log performance results. (created a frontend GUI in HTML5 and Javascript)
• Optimize and run industry standard benchmarks on Calxeda and Intel hardware. Benchmarks include SPECint, SPECjbb, SPECjvm, SPECpower, Coremark, Stream, FIO, IOzone, other tests from phoronix-test-suite, and in-house app-tier, web-tier and storage-tier benchmarks
• Project performance of BigData platforms like Hadoop, Ceph, Gluster, Sector/Sphere, Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, and Node.js on future generations of Calxeda and Intel competitor
• Developed an internal benchmark for receiving and broadcasting real-time news in node.js (similar to the Bloomberg terminal)
• Collaborate with marketing to establish Calxeda's value proposition in the context of power efficiency, compute density, total cost of acquisition (TCA) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Liaise with performance engineers at partner OEM's and end customers
• Help in recruiting and establishing relations with academic researchers

Sep 2011 – Mar 2012 · 6 mos · Austin Area, Texas

• I was responsible for technical oversight, technical marketing, thought leadership and branding, roadmap development, and coding parts of the application. Led a team of two engineers.
• At Cymulate, we were building technologies to aid cross-platform mobile development using PhoneGap (now Cordova). We build a framework for rapid debugging of iOS and Android apps via PhoneGap that sped up the code-compile-deploy-test process by over 10x.
• We also built a framework similar to PhoneGap Build for Android apps that supported creating Android apps with custom plugins (a feature not available in PG build at that time). Lastly, we build a benighted similar to WineRe, albeit faster and more stable. It was built on top of node.js and socket.io.

May 2006 – Oct 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos · austin, texas

• Architected Intel Xeon Phi, specifically the coherence interconnect and instruction decode units. We designed Xeon Phi for massive throughput for Graphics and HPC workloads. Xeon phi is the first many-core Intel chip with 62 in-order cores. Each core has 4 hardware threads, a two-level private cache hierarchy, and a 512-bit wide SIMD unit.
• Maintained and extended a multi-threaded multi-core performance simulator for Xeon Phi
• Formulated the process to benchmark GPUs.
• Investigated innovative paradigms for parallel programming.
• Researched techniques to improve load-balancing in multi-threaded applications.
• Ported simulation infrastructure to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
• Investigated software techniques to reduce data synchronization in irregular applications.
• Studied hardware techniques to reduce the impact of critical sections on performance.
• Developed a distributed job scheduler for Windows XP compute clusters.
• Parallelized applications to evaluate the trade-off between hardware- and software-efficiency.
• Implemented directory-based cache coherence in the multi-threaded/multi-core simulator.
• Hired/mentored new employees and interns for simulator/scripting projects

May 2005 – Sep 2005 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Proposed a scheduling policy to reduce cache warm-up effects in TPC-C.
• Studied memory interference experienced by concurrently running transactions.
• Added improved checkpointing support for JAVA benchmarks.

May 2004 – May 2004 · 0 mo · Austin, Texas Area

• Developed tools to identify instructions from each transaction in TPC-C.
• Analyzed instruction and data footprint of each transaction type.
• Ported a suite of multithreaded benchmarks in the simulation environment.

Oct 2003 – May 2004 · 7 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Maintained and enhanced test solutions to reduce cost and increase test coverage.
• Supported RMA analysis including verification, failure analysis, corrective action, and docume
• ntation.
• Formulated test plans and strategies.
• Liaised with OEMs and testing facilities.

Jan 2003 – May 2003 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Conducted test audit for digital I/O and timing hardware.
• Verified test coverage and implemented
• tests to increase coverage.
• Tested and Debugged RMAs and Dead-On-Arrival (DOA) boards.
• Reviewed board-level and ASIC designs of products under development.