Dennis Kennetz
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Oracle
Arlington, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Kennetz is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building GPU-accelerated and HPC-focused systems for genomics and cloud AI deployments. At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure he leads partnerships and product enablement (notably OCI/Meta Llama-Stack and NVIDIA collaborations), scaling open-source AI Blueprints from POC to revenue-driving customer tenancies. His background spans hands-on GPU algorithm development at Roche and large-scale genomics pipelines at St. Jude, giving him a rare blend of low-level performance tuning and production orchestration expertise. An active contributor to workflow tooling like Toil, he has practical experience integrating batch systems (LSF, Slurm) and improving cross-platform robustness. Colocated in Arlington, Tennessee, he enjoys mentoring and coffee chats about GPUs, AI, and HPC, and often frames problems with a systems-level perspective from customer UX down to the bare metal.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Chemistry, Master of Science - MS, Chemistry at The University of Memphis
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Github Skills (20)
python10
workflow-engine10
batchfile10
lsf10
batch10
devops10
batch-processing10
slurm9
pandas9
pip6
csv6
anaconda6
excel6
conda6
dataframe6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DataBiosphere/toil
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
A scalable, efficient, cross-platform (Linux/macOS) and easy-to-use workflow engine in pure Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and batch system integrations within the Toil project. They refactored character encodings to UTF-8 for consistency across the codebase. The user implemented and enhanced the LSF (Load Sharing Facility) batch system, adding functionality like memory doubling and logging for maximum memory usage, along with correcting the wait duration. The user also worked on integrating Slurm job details.
pythoncommon-workflow-languagemesosawsslurm
drkennetz/drkennetz
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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