Summary
Farrukh Khan is a Senior HPC Systems Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed computing environments for scientific research, most recently at Fermilab and now at DRW. He specializes in Linux administration, HTCondor/Slurm clusters, containerization with OpenShift/OKD, and automation using Puppet, Python, and Bash, and has led compute services teams for multi-hundred-thousand-core workloads. His background includes hands-on GlideinWMS operations at CERN and research-driven HPC development integrating MPJ Express with Hadoop YARN, demonstrating both operational rigor and systems-level engineering. Farrukh enjoys troubleshooting complex, cross-domain problems and bringing reproducible, container-based deployments into production. Although primarily an infrastructure engineer, he has a strong software development pedigree in C, Java, and Python and a track record of contributing code that enabled research publications. Based in Berlin with a Georgia Tech MS in Computer Science, he combines academic research experience with production-grade HPC and cloud expertise.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary School Certificate Pre-Engineering, Higher Secondary School Certificate Pre-Engineering at Kashmir Model College
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering Electronics Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering Electronics Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Urdu, English