Marcus Sorensen
DGX Cloud Principal Infrastructure Engineer at NVIDIA
Alpine, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Sorensen is a principal infrastructure engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud compute, network, and storage platforms for companies like NVIDIA and Apple. He blends deep Linux and KVM expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration, contributing as a committer to KubeVirt and as a PMC member of Apache CloudStack where his patches improved networking, storage, and hypervisor features. Marcus specializes in turning cutting-edge AI hardware into scalable public and private cloud services, often debugging training jobs, controllers, and the underlying infra for optimal performance. Beyond production systems, he writes automation for containers and VMs, has implemented features like DHCP/DNS and custom CA integration in KubeVirt, and brings practical SAN, ZFS, Ceph, and SDN experience from earlier CTO and director roles. Based in Alpine, Utah, he pairs systems-level curiosity—electronics tinkering and systems programming—with a track record of shipping reliable, enterprise-grade orchestration solutions.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Certificate, Electronics Automation and Robotics, Technical Certificate, Electronics Automation and Robotics at Utah Valley University
Danish
Github Skills (18)
libvirt10
kubernetes10
kvm10
cloud-computing10
networking10
go10
virtualization10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
rbac9
dockers9
java9
cicd9
bash9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Sep 2012 - Dec 2022
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 28 commits, 41 PRs in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily focused on KVM-specific hypervisor improvements, with contributions in several areas. They fixed bugs related to disk and directory creation permissions, system VM ISO launching and other configurations. Additionally, the user enhanced KVM functionality by implementing features like volume encryption support, block IO size settings, and adding various system configurations. They also worked on networking aspects.
apache-cloudstackcloud-computingiaaspythonjava
kubevirt/kubevirt
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 28 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marcus's commits primarily focused on enhancing the `kubevirt` project. They implemented features related to DNS configuration and DHCP server functionality, modifying network-related code. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the operator, adjusting test resource counts and incorporating RBAC updates related to the `kubevirt-handler`. The user also made changes to the codebase to integrate custom CA certificates.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
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