Matthew Cawood
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Cawood is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of expertise in high-performance computing, specializing in performance benchmarking, system analysis, and tooling for leadership-scale scientific and AI workloads. He has driven design and commissioning efforts for major supercomputers like Grace Hopper (Vista) and supported systems such as Frontera and Stampede2 while developing BenchPRO to automate and standardize benchmarking at scale. At TACC he combined hands-on benchmarking with environment-management work (maintaining Lmod) and a strong vendor-facing role validating Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA technologies. Earlier roles at South Africa’s Centre for High Performance Computing honed his skills in procurement, R&D system administration, and user training across the continent. Now based in Cork and recently moving to Dell Technologies, he brings a rare blend of deep performance engineering, tooling-driven reproducibility, and practical deployment experience that helps researchers squeeze real-world performance from cutting-edge hardware.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
compilation9
benchmark7
automation5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
MCawood/lightcone
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
mrcawood/benchpro_dev
Nov 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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