Summary
David H is a Senior Systems Engineer with three decades of *NIX experience and over 10 years focused on designing, deploying, and operating large-scale HPC and AI clusters for government, academia, and enterprise. He has led end-to-end hardware and software integrations for clusters exceeding 1,000 nodes and brings hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure, RabbitMQ and modern DevSecOps practices. Recently re-centered on HPC for AI at HPE, Arm, and Graphcore, he blends low-level Linux administration (RHEL/Alma, SLES, Debian) with containerization and automation to accelerate model training workflows. Comfortable in both structured, deadline-driven projects and ambiguous technical challenges, he has also managed teams and configuration efforts on complex contracts like the VA MCCF EDI TAS. A former Marine helicopter mechanic, he applies military discipline to meticulous deployment and validation processes across global remote sites. Based in Florida, he continues to rapidly ramp new skills while enabling reproducible, production-grade compute environments for AI research and operations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer