Summary
Germán Méndez is a Linux HPC Systems Administrator with 11 years of IT experience and over seven years managing HPC infrastructure at ITER S.A., where he optimizes cluster performance, automates deployments with Chef/Ansible and EasyBuild, and administers Slurm, InfiniBand networks and MPI/CUDA stacks for meteorological simulations. Currently pursuing a Master's in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, he blends production-grade systems expertise with growing data-science and ML knowledge to accelerate research workflows. He builds robust monitoring and HA solutions using Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana and Docker Swarm, and scripts repeatable operations in Python and Bash. A former SQA and web-app developer, Germán brings cross-disciplinary experience in databases, automation and code-quality tooling that helps bridge developer and operations needs. Off-hours he applies strategic thinking from chess to complex debugging and capacity planning, making him a pragmatic problem-solver for compute-heavy projects.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree in computer engineer, Computing Pathway, Bachelor's degree in computer engineer, Computing Pathway at La Laguna University
Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence Research, Learning and Data Science, 8,66, Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence Research, Learning and Data Science, 8,66 at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
Spanish, English