Jay Azurin
Senior DevOps Engineer - HPC at NVIDIA
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Azurin is a Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in HPC with 11 years of experience building CI-driven test infrastructure, automation, and compiler QA for major firms including NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and IBM. He combines hands-on firmware and embedded Linux work with leadership experience: hiring, coaching, sprint planning, and running scrums for teams focused on LLVM-based compiler correctness and performance. Jay has a strong track record of designing end-to-end on-target test frameworks, automating regression bisection and reproduction, and visualizing build/test health via Splunk and Grafana. His open-source contributions include maintaining the Open Power buildroot overlay and validating firmware across multiple server platforms, reflecting deep familiarity with hardware bring-up and CI on real devices. Known for quickly mastering complex systems, he pairs root cause analysis and hardware debugging skills with practical tooling like Jenkins, Buildbot, Docker, and Gerrit to drive measurable quality improvements. Based in Austin, he brings a rare blend of firmware, compiler QA, and large-scale automation expertise that accelerates product validation under tight timelines.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Oregon State UniversityMasters Telecommunication, Masters Telecommunication at Southern Methodist University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
firmware10
embedded10
build-system10
sys10
makefile10
openpower10
git8
xml7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-power/op-build
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Buildroot overlay for Open Power
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:51 commits, 66 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily focused on updating and maintaining the build system for the Open Power buildroot overlay. Their work involved updating versions of firmware components like hostboot, firestone-xml, habanero-xml, and palmetto-xml. The user also applied and removed patches, tested the builds on various hardware platforms (habanero, palmetto, firestone), and addressed specific build issues related to the hostboot package.
buildrootfirmwareopenpowermakefile
jazurin/configs
Sep 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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