Omar Awile
Principal Cloud Architect at Oracle
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOmar Awile is a Principal Cloud Architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale AI and HPC infrastructure across research and industry, currently helping customers build and run cloud AI/HPC at Oracle from Geneva. He blends deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich—with hands-on performance engineering and system architecture work at institutions like EPFL, CERN, Intel, and the Blue Brain Project. Omar has led multidisciplinary teams to modernize simulation codes, architect heterogeneous HPC clusters, and translate scientific workflows into scalable cloud-native solutions. He is an active contributor to critical open-source HPC tooling (e.g., feature and build improvements to the widely used HighFive C++ HDF5 interface) and routinely drives benchmarking and vendor collaborations to squeeze real-world performance gains. Known for bridging natural sciences and engineering, he excels at turning complex computational science requirements into robust, production-grade infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for cross-functional knowledge transfer, technical leadership, and thought leadership in AI/HPC performance engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMSc, Computer Science, Numerics, Astrophysics, MSc, Computer Science, Numerics, Astrophysics at ETH Zürich
German, English, French, Arabic, Japanese
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Github Skills (19)
hdf10
c-language10
build-automation10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
code-coverage9
documentation8
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
bootstra7
bootstrap7
openmp6
eclipse6
ruby-on-rails6
fortran6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BlueBrain/HighFive
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
HighFive - Header-only C++ HDF5 interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:51 reviews, 27 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily contributed to the HighFive library by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the build process. They added support for HDF5 object references, initialized a `SilenceHDF5` flag, and added code coverage through codecov.io. The user also removed symlinks from the repository to improve downstream build stability and enhanced the library's documentation with a basic webpage for presentation. Additionally, the user focused on making the codes runnable and made some CSS improvements on the webpage.
cpphdf
ohm314/forthreads
Sep 2012 - Oct 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 2 months
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