Description

I specialize in the hard problems — the ones that survive first-line support and require deep investigation across the hardware/software boundary. With 10+ years in datacenter-scale environments, I've spent my career at Nutanix diagnosing critical failures where compute, storage, networking, and hypervisor layers intersect.

My focus areas include GPU-accelerated infrastructure (NVIDIA driver debugging, VFIO/mdev passthrough, ECC analysis), Linux internals (kernel crash analysis, kdump, driver fault tracing), KVM/AHV virtualization, and NUMA/performance regression work on clustered systems. I've built diagnostic tooling used thousands of times across global customer fleets and worked directly with NVIDIA engineering to trace and resolve driver-level regressions.

I'm available for short or long-term engagements involving escalation support, infrastructure reliability investigations, diagnostic tooling, or performance analysis on complex Linux/GPU environments.

Certifications: RHCSA · Nutanix Certified Master (NCM MCI) · VCP6-DCV/NV

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Rotterdam (up to 50km)

Nutanix
-Sr. Staff Escalation & Systems Reliability Engineer
TECH
January 2019 - July 2025 (6 years and 6 months)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
• - Performed kernel-level crash-dump analysis on production clusters, isolating failures within NVIDIA's closed-source GPU driver modules; identified a driver regression that triggered firmware-level timeout conditions under specific workloads, and collaborated with Nutanix GPU Engineering and NVIDIA to validate fixes using pre-release driver builds
• - Troubleshot GPU passthrough (VFIO) and mediated-device (mdev) issues on AHV/KVM, including driver-binding problems, incomplete GPU reset behavior (FLR-related), and mdev provisioning failures due to host/guest driver mismatches
• - Designed and maintained automated live-boot ISO images embedding diagnostic payloads for GPU and storage nodes; scripts captured telemetry, logs, and performance signatures automatically on boot, reducing triage time from hours to minutes across global customer fleets.
• - Developed SQL correlation queries on large telemetry datasets to detect configuration dependent failure signatures across customer environments; integrated results into automated workflows that surfaced high-impact issues for engineering and support.
• - Investigated NUMA locality challenges in Nutanix AHV clusters where Controller VMs are pinned to host cores; validated BIOS configurations to maximize local I/O performance and avoid remote-node latency penalties.
• - Ran performance benchmarking using Cinebench and Phoronix Test Suite analyzing Nutanix hardware platforms and guest performance across hypervisors (AHV/ESXi), kernel versions, and CPU architectures to identify configuration-dependent regressions.
• - Created Python and Bash automation used to orchestrate log capture, correlate kernel events, and produce actionable diagnostic summaries for critical customer escalations.
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Systems Reliability Engineer
TECH
January 2016 - January 2019 (3 years)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
• - Troubleshot cross-layer failures across compute, storage, and networking paths in distributed Nutanix clusters.
• - Provisioned and managed server hardware in the Support Lab; performed node bring-up, imaging, racking, and platform validation.
• - Supported engineering teams by validating experimental configurations and identifying systemic reliability issues.
• - Work directly supported production infrastructure operating at global datacenter scale.
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Durham, United States
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