Walid Abouhamad
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolWalid Abouhamad is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with nine years of focused QE leadership, currently driving GPU and network operator validation and CI/CD automation at Red Hat. He designs and maintains end-to-end test frameworks for NVIDIA GPU and Network Operators and Node Feature Discovery across OpenShift and multi-cloud/bare-metal environments, and led RHEL-AI GPU validation for H100 training workloads. Walid combines deep systems expertise—Kubernetes, RHEL/RHCOS, RDMA/GPUDirect, and multi-NUMA scheduler features—with hands-on automation in Go/Ginkgo, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, and Bash. He has a strong background in networking and VoIP from prior Cisco work, bringing performance, scalability, and reliability testing rigor to platform and operator projects. Notably, he is a key contributor to a public NVIDIA CI automation framework and maintains nightly dashboards that validate cross-architecture GPU operator matrices. Trained originally in molecular biology and later in computer programming, he pairs scientific rigor with pragmatic engineering to tackle complex test automation challenges.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Certificate, Computer Science, 4.0, Computer Programming Certificate, Computer Science, 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology at Texas A&M University
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (47)
continuous-integration10
cucumber10
feature-discovery10
openshift10
documentation10
continuous-deployment9
kubernetes9
hardware9
ruby9
continuous-delivery9
kernel-module9
devops9
iaas9
daemon9
go9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wabouhamad/svt
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 95 pushes, 53 branches in 3 years 3 months
wabouhamad/nvidia-ci
Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
Continuous Integration for NVIDIA operators on OpenShift
Contributions:60 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 8 months
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