Walter Hanau
Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Hanau is a Senior Solutions Architect based in San Diego with a decade of hands-on experience designing and deploying GPU-accelerated, Kubernetes-orchestrated AI and HPC infrastructure across autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, and enterprise environments. He blends entrepreneurial product leadership—co-designing Lodestar’s real-time active learning platform and co-founding security integration startup Rockhop—with deep systems engineering from rolling out early NVIDIA DGX deployments to building bare-metal orchestration (KubeFlex). Comfortable in both cloud and air-gapped brownfield settings, he drives architecture, infrastructure teams, and roadmaps while keeping a strong emphasis on security and operational resilience. Walter’s background spans performance engineering, custom networking, and productionizing deep learning stacks, and he has repeatedly delivered complex solutions under tight schedules and budgets. Notably, he pairs enterprise-grade rigor from his Forcepoint/Deloitte years with startup speed and creativity, making niche AI tooling productive within the first hour of use.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration - Management Information Technology, Business Administration - Management Information Technology at California State University San Marcos
Github Skills (2)
mbed2
wifi2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Willhanau/UIABook
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Willhanau/Wills-Island-Adventure-Unity5
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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