Brem K
Principal Engineer Research HPC Cloud Computing AI ML at University of Bath
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrem K is a Principal Engineer specializing in Research HPC, Cloud Computing, and AI/ML with over a decade of hands-on experience across India, Canada and the UK. He currently leads delivery of cost‑optimised, scalable research computing at the University of Bath, having progressed from systems developer to principal engineer by improving performance and cloud-native architectures. Brem’s background at Altair and IBM reflects deep systems and HPC expertise—kernel and system-level programming, PBS Professional workload scheduling, MPI, and installer/platform integration for cross‑platform deployments. He is an active backend contributor to the widely used openpbs/openpbs project, focusing on robustness, resource allocation and dynamic library loading that improve cluster stability. Known for translating research needs into production-quality, maintainable solutions, he pairs academic collaboration with pragmatic software engineering practices. Based in Swindon, he brings a mix of research-focused innovation and production-grade engineering that accelerates computational science workflows.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor’s Degree Electricals and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electricals and Electronics Engineering at Pondicherry UniversityServite school
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openpbs/openpbs
May 2016 - Dec 2021
An HPC workload manager and job scheduler for desktops, clusters, and clouds.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 49 commits, 65 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brem primarily focused on backend development within the HPC workload manager repository. Their contributions include fixing issues related to directory configuration, appending paths for dynamic library loading, and improving error reporting mechanisms. Furthermore, the user made changes to license-related functions and resource allocation, demonstrating involvement in core server functionalities and system stability. These changes suggest a focus on improving the robustness and functionality of the PBS Pro workload manager.
slurmprovisioningschedulingclustersscheduler
bremanandjk/openpbs
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
An HPC workload manager and job scheduler for desktops, clusters, and clouds.
Contributions:597 pushes, 394 branches, 3 comments in 5 years 4 months
development-toolsclustersschedulerjobjob-scheduler
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