Alex Volkov
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Volkov is a systems hardware and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience delivering HPC, embedded, and signal-processing solutions across defense and energy sectors. He specializes in C/C++ and Matlab/Simulink toolchains for high-performance and GPU-accelerated computing, with deep expertise in adaptive signal processing, Kalman filtering, machine learning, and model-based design. Alex has led algorithm-to-deployment pipelines—auto-generating multi-threaded CPU/GPU code and implementing real-time embedded systems—while also designing and debugging RF hardware early in his career. A pragmatic consultant and chief engineer, he blends low-level optimization (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA/OpenCL) with systems integration, and recently contributed rootless Docker support to NVIDIA’s popular deepops GPU-cluster tooling. Based in Chicago, he pairs a rigorous academic foundation (BS/MS EE, near-perfect GPA) with a track record of shipping robust, production-grade solutions in complex, multidisciplinary environments.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Electrical Engineering, 3.9, B.S, Electrical Engineering, 3.9 at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
docker10
devops10
dockers10
ansible10
linux9
cloud-infrastructure9
slurm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA/deepops
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Tools for building GPU clusters
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 22 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the `nvidia/deepops` repository, which provides tools for building GPU clusters, by integrating rootless Docker support. Their work involved creating playbooks and roles to configure rootless Docker installations, along with scripts for managing the Docker daemon. Furthermore, the user modified module files and service configurations to facilitate the use of rootless Docker within the cluster environment, ensuring proper environment setup. The commits also updated the slurm configurations and patched the compute node for login processes.
gpuclusters
avolkov1/helper_scripts_for_containers
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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