Francisco Casares
Lead AI Solutions Architect at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolFrancisco Casares is a Lead AI Solutions Architect based in Portland with over 18 years at Intel, specializing in designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native GenAI and NLP infrastructures on Kubernetes for enterprise OEMs and ODMs. He has led cross-functional teams of 20+ engineers to build reference architectures that integrate Intel Gaudi accelerators and Intel Xeon platforms, focusing on cluster scalability, performance validation, and automated pipelines. His background spans the full stack of distributed systems—Kubernetes/OpenShift, storage fabrics, MPI/Libfabric, PyTorch/DeepSpeed and model-serving frameworks like Hugging Face and vLLM—bridging hardware BOMs and software stacks for production AI. Earlier work on genomics workflow engines (contributions to Broad Institute’s Cromwell) and precision medicine platforms demonstrates a strong track record of shipping high-impact, revenue-driving systems in regulated domains. He combines deep systems engineering with practical deployment experience and a knack for translating OEM feedback into iterative architecture improvements.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) System Engineering/Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) System Engineering/Software Engineering at Instituto Universitario Aeronáutico
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (13)
caching10
docker10
workflow-engine10
back-end-development10
dockers10
scala10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
configuration-management9
api8
apidoc8
cloud-computing8
cicd7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/cromwell
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 58 PRs, 179 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily contributed to the core backend functionality of the Cromwell workflow engine. Their work included refactoring, adding support for caching, implementing Docker integration, and improving HtCondor backend features. The user also addressed issues related to input handling and command execution, and enhanced the system's capabilities. Additionally, the user worked on the key-value service, making it extensible and adding recovery mechanisms.
casestransitionbioinformaticsworkflow-executioncommon-workflow-language
francares/gatk
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
gatkcode-repository
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