Summary
Antony Cleave is an HPC-focused systems architect with over eight years of hands-on experience designing and deploying high-performance compute and storage solutions for research and enterprise customers. He combines deep practical expertise in Slurm scheduler, BeeGFS/GPFS/Lustre storage, VMware clustering, and hybrid cloud bursting to deliver end-to-end HPC installations and presales solutions. His background in materials physics simulation (PhD from Imperial College London) gives him uncommon domain insight into scientific workloads and optimization of codes like DLPOLY, GULP and CASTEP. Proficient in Perl, Python, Bash and MySQL, he bridges software and infrastructure to streamline deployments and support complex workflows. Currently advising and building HPC/cloud offerings across multiple companies, he’s equally comfortable architecting on-prem clusters or extending capacity into cloud environments. An engineer who started in academic research before moving into presales and product-focused delivery, he brings both rigor and customer-facing pragmatism to large-scale compute projects.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Simulation of Materials for Nuclear Waste disposal Applications, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Simulation of Materials for Nuclear Waste disposal Applications at Imperial College London