Mohan Babu
mohanchinna2@gmail.com
Senior Engineer

Motivated and versatile software developer. Proficient in HPC application benchmarking, porting and tuning. Always looking for new challenges and new technologies to learn. Efficient working both independently and in a team environment.

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Skills

Benchmarking, HPC application porting and Tuning, DevOps, Cloud Computing

6.5 years of experience in HPC Engineering and Cloud Analytics

Programming

6+ years experience with Python and 3+ years of experience working with Bash and C and task automation.

Tools & Technologies

Agile • Application Characterization and Optimization • AWS Services (incl. Console, EC2, ParallelCluster, S3, Lambda) • Dokcer • GitHub • Jira • Jupyter • Linux • x86 Arch

Experience

Senior Engineer

• Aug, 2022 – Present •
Working on application optimization in the AI-DL domain for Xeon platforms
  • Working on opportunities to optimize AI-DL applications on Xeon platforms.
  • Automated benchmarking of Power performance applications and integrated with E2E post-silicon validation code base.

Senior Software Engineer

• Feb, 2019 – Aug, 2022 •
Primarily working with HPC application Benchmarking and Tuning, Linux, Python and Shell
  • Developed Spack recipes for 15+ HPC applications with AMD toolchain support which simplifies building and running Scientific codes on AMD EPYC Servers by contributing to Open Source Spack project.
  • Ported 5+ Parallel Scientific codes with AMD CPU toolchain and generated detailed performance benchmarking report which then used by Compilers and Libraries team to improve application performance.
  • Collaborated with Compilers and Libraries team to build a Jenkins pipeline to validate HPC applications functional and performance behaviour with monthly stable releases which helped teams to reduce turn around time in fixing the issues.
  • Evaluated 20+ HPC applications with 3 Toolchains on various AMD EPYC generations (Zen2, Zen3) to assess software and hardware performance against Competition which helped in setting up the goals.
  • Addressed 50+ customer issues/requests and raised 20+ defects in Compilers and Libraries.

Senior Associate - Data Science

• Jun, 2016 – Jan, 2019 •
Worked with world class Cloud Service Providers to Evaluate their Cognitive abilities on the Cloud with competition. Built systems and tools to automate the process of submitting input dataset to the targeted Cloud Services and parse the output to present the response in human readable format.
  • Developed a video annotation tool to annotate faces and emotions at frame level and achieved more than 50% reduction in time to create gold standard data set with increased accuracy in the annotation.
  • Developed 10+ Client API python scripts to communicate with various cloud services to load, store and get response then parse the response into readable format.
  • Worked on a POC on Natural Language User Interface (NLUI), enables users to compose questions in Natural Language and receive the response also in Natural Language from internal database, it worked for small queries.
  • Generated benchmark reports on Sentiment Analysis, OCR and Face detection for Cognitive services on AWS, GCP, Azure and IBM cloud.

Recognition

Executive Spot Light: Spack Development and Promoting AMD CPU Toolchain

AMD • 2021

For Excellent job done in promoting AMD CPU toolchain to ISV customers and Universities.

Spot Light: Leading the Spack Development with CPU Toolchain

AMD • 2020

For developing Spack recipes for Tier-1 HPC applications with AMD CPU toolchain support.

Education

National Institute of Technology, Puducherry

M.Tech. Computer Science • 2016

Focused on Computer Science and presented thesis on Crime Prediction for Smart Cities. Summer Research Intern at IIITD&M Kancheepuram, Chennai. 2015

AITS, Rajampet

B.Tech. Computer Science • 2014

  • First Prize at 14th National level technical Symposium on Palm Vein Technology paper.
Focused on Computer Science and received degree with Distinction.

Outside Interests

In my free time I enjoy writing on my blog about HPC and Cloud.

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