Hank Bruning is a systems architect and firmware engineering leader with over 20 years designing CPU/GPU/HPC firmware, BMC/CMC management, and data center control systems for rack, blade and VPX platforms. He has driven industry adoption of IPMI, Redfish and related standards as a long-time voting member and co-author of multiple PICMG, OCP, DMTF and SOSA specifications that are implemented across millions of servers. Hank combines hands-on firmware and Java systems engineering with standards leadership, having authored BMC/CMC requirements used in production by hyperscalers and DoD contractors alike. He has led engineering teams, founded a company delivering high-throughput IPMI/Redfish management software, and influenced hardware test/specs for optical and DRAM modules. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, he pairs enterprise-scale deployment experience with rare deep protocol expertise—evident in standards like HPM.1 now used throughout major cloud fleets.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
ipmi
Bachelor’s Degree, Business, Industrial Organizational Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree, Business, Industrial Organizational Psychology at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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Hank Bruning - Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD