Aurelien Bouteiller
PMTS Software Engineer at AMD
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarAurelien Bouteiller is a PMTS Software Engineer with 18 years of experience in high-performance computing, distributed systems, and build/release automation, currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee. He combines industry and academic roles—at AMD and as a Research Assistant Professor at the Tickle College of Engineering—bridging cutting-edge research with production-grade engineering. Aurelien has made impactful open-source contributions to prominent projects like Open MPI, UCX, and Spack, improving testing frameworks, performance tooling, and package maintainability for HPC ecosystems. He specializes in backend performance engineering, multi-threaded testing, and robust build integrations, often tackling subtle issues like memory leaks, error handling, and evolving build requirements. Colleagues value his ability to move research prototypes into reproducible, maintainable builds and tests that scale across platforms. An insatiable tinkerer, he routinely refactors legacy components to meet modern coding standards while preserving production stability.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
package-management10
multithreading10
mpi10
cmake10
hpc10
c1110
performance-testing10
c1710
package-manager-tool10
build-automation10
build-tools10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
infiniband9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
open-mpi/ompi
Jul 2007 - Sep 2022
Open MPI main development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 232 commits, 104 PRs in 15 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aurelien primarily worked on modifications related to the Message Log framework within the Open MPI repository, a project focused on high-performance computing and message passing. Their contributions involved moving the framework to the trunk, implementing protocol examples (including a sender-based example), and logging matching events. They also fixed issues related to code and copyright notices and worked on build system functionality.
mpicluster-computingfortranopenmpipetsc
spack/spack
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aurelien primarily contributed to the Spack package definition for PaRSEC. Their work involved adding new versions, updating the package definition to include dependencies on flex and bison, and integrating testing within the Spack framework. The user also refactored the package definition to address the move to a GitHub repository and updated the required CMake version. These changes directly impacted the build process, testing, and overall maintainability of the PaRSEC package within the Spack ecosystem.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.