David Brayford
Senior HPC Research Engineer at OpenHPC
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Brayford is a Senior HPC Research Engineer with nine years of focused experience deploying AI and large-scale software on secure petascale HPC systems. He blends deep scientific computing and numerical analysis expertise with hands-on work in 3D graphics, device drivers, and photorealistic rendering, bringing an unusual cross-domain fluency to performance-critical problems. At organizations including HPE, Intel, and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre he has driven performance tuning, procurement, and containerized AI framework deployment for Exascale-ready environments. Active in OpenHPC governance since 2016, he helps shape open-source tooling that makes HPC containers scalable, interoperable, and secure. He has also led projects integrating distributed ML, quantum simulator deployments, and mechanisms to run non-traditional applications on locked-down supercomputers. Based in Phoenix, AZ, David pairs a PhD-backed research mindset with practical engineering that bridges academic innovation and production-grade HPC operations.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterBSc(hons), Chemistry, BSc(hons), Chemistry at The University of Salford
English
Github Skills (64)
python10
machine-learning10
cntk10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
java9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
scalable9
computer-vision8
extensible8
bazel8
build-system8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DavidBrayford/Tutorials
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ClusterCockpit/cc-energy-manager
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
A central energy setting optimization component
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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