Summary
Stephen Fralich is a High Performance Computing Architect with over 15 years designing, deploying, and operating large-scale HPC clusters for academia and industry, now leading Boeing’s adoption of commercial cloud for HPC workloads. He blends deep Linux and systems engineering expertise—stateless node image tooling, configuration management (Ansible, Puppet), cluster filesystems and interconnect tuning—with hands-on SRE experience from roles at Tesla and T-Mobile. Stephen has repeatedly driven migrations (Puppet to new infrastructures, homegrown CM to Ansible) and led Azure and Bright Cluster Manager proofs of concept, pairing technical delivery with documentation, training, and mentoring. Based in Bothell, WA, he combines institution-grade reliability practices from university research computing with enterprise-scale cloud modernization, and often surfaces performance wins through custom tooling and benchmarking.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Shoreline Community College
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Syracuse University
English