Chris Bording
HPC Manager at The University of Western Australia
Western Australia
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Top SchoolChris Bording is an experienced HPC manager with 11+ years delivering research computing solutions across universities and national supercomputing centres, currently leading a team at the University of Western Australia to streamline on-premise, cloud and containerised workflows for researchers. He blends hands-on systems architecture (Power systems, Cray XC40) with user-focused support and training—he’s a certified Software Carpentry instructor active in the HPC Carpentry community and a founder and chair of the HUST workshop at Supercomputing. His background includes senior roles at Pawsey and IBM Hartree Centre where he led bioinformatics and ML enablement, built tooling like the Maali build system, and managed uptake projects to improve application scalability and data workflows. Chris is practised at translating complex research requirements into practical PoCs and digital assets that speed time-to-solution, and he often pairs policy and documentation work with technical automation to improve usability. A mathematician by training, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with a long track record of building user support programs that scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Mathematics, Masters of Science, Mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Mechanical Engineering at University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (11)
version-control10
git10
versioning10
stable10
wolfram-language5
build-system4
mercury4
cli2
linux2
command-line-tool2
hpc1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbuwahpc/control_repo
May 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
chrisbpawsey/maali-ninja
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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