Gaurang Vishwakarma
Specializing in HPC, AI/ML Infrastructure, and Linux Systems
MSc in High Performance Computing, EPCC, University of Edinburgh • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) • Slurm & Kubernetes • InfiniBand/RDMA & Lustre
Technical Skills
HPC & AI/ML Infrastructure
- Slurm (QoS, Gres, Fairshare)
- Kubernetes / Kueue
- MPI / OpenMP
- Lustre / GPFS
- NVIDIA, AMD & Cerebras Accelerators
- Base Command Manager
Linux System Administration
- RHEL 9, Ubuntu, Arch Linux
- systemd, SELinux
- LVM, GRUB, UEFI/GPT
- InfiniBand (RDMA, RoCE)
- TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, PXE
- Troubleshooting: dmesg, strace, journalctl
Development & Automation
- C, C++17 (STL)
- Python
- Bash Shell Scripting
- Ansible
- Docker, Singularity, Podman
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
Operating HPC & AI Infrastructure at Scale
Red Hat Certified System Administrator with an MSc in High Performance Computing from EPCC, University of Edinburgh. Focused on administering Linux HPC and GPU clusters — job scheduling, high-speed interconnects, parallel filesystems, and the operational tooling that keeps large-scale AI/ML workloads running.
Core Expertise
- Cluster Operations: Slurm, Kubernetes GPU scheduling, Lmod, MPI/OpenMP workloads, Base Command Manager
- Linux Engineering: RHEL 9, systemd, SELinux, LVM, kernel modules, root cause analysis
- Systems Programming: C, C++17, and Python for automation and operational tooling
- Open Source: Active contributor in the Linux ecosystem since 2020; maintainer of a distribution serving 500K+ users
HPC & Accelerator Infrastructure
Hands-on administration and operations across world-class supercomputing clusters: TeamEPCC H100 cluster, ARCHER2, Cirrus, PSC Bridges-2, DKRZ Levante, and the EIDF Kubernetes/Kueue GPU cluster.
Practical benchmarking and optimization experience across diverse hardware accelerators including NVIDIA A100, H100, H200, AMD Instinct MI210, MI300X, and Cerebras CS-3.
Education & Certifications
MSc, High Performance Computing
EPCC, University of Edinburgh
Parallel programming (MPI, OpenMP), performance optimization, HPC architectures, and large-scale systems — at one of Europe’s leading supercomputing centres.
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat
Package management (dnf/rpm), SELinux & firewalld, Podman containers, users & groups, storage (LVM, NFS, XFS, EXT4), networking, systemd, kernel modules.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation — in progress
kubeadm, CRDs, cluster setup, networking, Ingress, Helm, Kustomize, storage (PV, PVCs), RBAC, troubleshooting.
NVIDIA Certified Professional — AI Operations (NCP-AIOL)
NVIDIA — in progress
Base Command Manager, Slurm, Kubernetes/Kueue, InfiniBand, run:ai, MIG, GPU scheduling.
Featured Projects
LLM LoRA Fine-Tuning & Performance Optimization
Distributed LoRA fine-tuning pipelines for large language models, optimized for performance across heterogeneous accelerator clusters. Focused on scalable training, reproducibility, and benchmarking across GPU and wafer-scale systems.
Arka Linux GUI - Open Source OS
Open-source Linux operating system and GUI stack used by 500,000+ users globally as a daily driver. Focused on system reliability, modular build pipelines, and long-term maintainability across diverse hardware. Features a vibrant community on our support platforms.
Scholar Sense - RAG System
Production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for large-scale document analysis. Built scalable NLP pipelines for embedding, indexing, and LLM-based inference using containerized microservices.
oschat - Real-Time Communication Platform
High-performance real-time communication platform supporting thousands of concurrent WebSocket connections. Designed for low-latency messaging, horizontal scalability, and production cloud deployment.
Beyond Engineering
Outside of building distributed systems and optimizing ML pipelines, I'm a performing drummer with 30+ live shows across indoor venues and arenas. Music brings the same creative problem-solving and rhythm that drives great engineering.
