Fernanda Foertter
Executive Director at The University of Alabama High Performance Computing and Data Center
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolFernanda Foertter is an executive leader and seasoned HPC engineer with 12+ years building and scaling high-performance compute and data environments for scientific and biomedical workloads. Currently Executive Director of The University of Alabama’s High Performance Computing and Data Center, she combines deep hands-on expertise from roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NVIDIA with a knack for translating hardware and software advances into real-world genomics and biomedical solutions. She has led developer relations, product and applications teams, driven GPU-acceleration adoption (including work tied to Parabricks acquisition), and managed cross-disciplinary collaborations that break down silos. Equally comfortable debugging low-level performance issues or shaping go-to-market and developer engagement strategies, she focuses on data wrangling, scalable algorithms, and tooling that accelerates science. Based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Fernanda brings a materials science and physics background to her computational work, a perspective that often uncovers non-obvious optimizations at the intersection of software, hardware, and domain science.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Florida International UniversityM.S. Materials Science Engineering, M.S. Materials Science Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (14)
virus8
bioinformatics7
seq6
cuda4
gpu3
machine-learning2
portability2
deep-learning2
pytorch2
nvidia-docker1
svg1
gpu-acceleration1
ecosystem1
singularity1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
foertter/Compute4COVID
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
A collection of compute resources for people doing research related to COVID virus
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 days
viruscompute
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