Summary
Jordi Pallares is a computational physicist and entrepreneur with 14+ years delivering high-performance computing and AI infrastructures across national supercomputing centers, research institutions, and industry. As Co-Founder and Director of Do IT Now - New Zealand (and co-founder/CTO of HPCNow!), he architects cloud-bursting, container-centric HPC/AI clusters and leads performance tuning, benchmarking, and automated provisioning for clients across APAC and the US West Coast. He has a track record of driving dramatic application speedups and resource-efficiency gains, and helped shape national HPC strategy at NeSI and XRQTC while managing distributed engineering teams. Founder of the long-running HPC Knowledge Portal, Jordi has fostered an international community with hundreds of talks and training events, reflecting his commitment to open-source collaboration and skills transfer. Known for pragmatic R&D-as-a-service and lightweight, resilient monitoring and burst-buffer solutions, he pairs deep systems expertise with hands-on application optimization to turn computational bottlenecks into production-ready workflows.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, Catalan, English, Esperanto, Italian