Pravin Pawar

A highly motivated HPC Infrastructure Professional with good communication, technical and negotiation skills looking for a challenging yet rewarding position to work for the growth of the organization and self. EXPERIENCE – 10 YEARS Centre for development of advanced computing (C-DAC), Pune — Consultant Centre for development of advanced computing (C-DAC), Pune — Project Engineer April 2012 - PRESENT A highly motivated IT Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in High-Performance Computing Solutions Analysis & Design, Deployment, Management, Automation, Administration, and Troubleshooting. To have worked on many IT Infrastructure projects including PARAM Series of Supercomputers, PARAM SHAVAK gained a deep understanding of IT Infrastructural components like Servers, High-Speed Networks, High-Performance Storage Technologies like SAN & NAS, Hybrid storage, RAID configuration, Backup, Parallel Filesystems, High Availability Storage, Network configuration, Linux, Virtualization and Cloud Computing.

• National Supercomputing Mission:- HPC CLUSTER DEPLOYMENTS Project

1. PARAM Shivay IIT-BHU Varanasi
2. PARAM Shakti IIT kharagpur
3. PARAM Brahma IISER Pune
4. PARAM YUKTI JNCASR Bangalore

5. PARAM PRAVEAG IISC Bangalore

6. PARAM Ganga IIT Roorkee

7.PARAM Smriti NABI Mohali

8. PARAM Sanganak IIT Kanpur

• SANGAM & SHRESTHA CLUSTER, CDAC PUNE – HPC CLUSTER DEPLOYMENTS
  Project Summary: These two clusters res. 150 TF and 100 TF HPC Cluster Project under NSM (National Supercomputing Mission) using OPENHPC as a cluster manager suite.
  Responsibilities: These Cluster were fully prepared in-house and I was the part of the team to deploy and manage the cluster.
• PARAM KILIMANJARO, NM-AIST, TANZANIA — HPC CLUSTER DEPLOYMENTS
  Project Summary: PARAM KILIMANJARO is an initiative by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. The Goal of the project is to help the country develop IT Infrastructure for scientific research and engineering applications.
  Responsibilities: Coordination with the vendor for Hardware setup, Interactions with Vice Chancellor NM-AIST and team for coordinating the smooth deployment of PARAM KILIMANJARO Supercomputing Facility within stringent deadlines later inaugurated by Minister of Education, Tanzania, Prof. Joyce Ndalichako.
• PARAM TEZ, TEZPUR, ASSAM — HPC CLUSTER DEPLOY
  Project Summary: PARAM TEZ HPC FACILITY is an initiative by CDAC to speed up HPC Learnings, Engineering Applications and Scientific Research in North East part of India.
• IIT BOMBAY — HPC CLUSTER DEPLOY
  Responsibilities: Taking care of hardware setup, configuration and deployment of the cluster software.
  Integration of coprocessor components and storage configuration. HPC Cluster handover and signoff. Trainings and Workshops on administration and usability of the HPC Cluster.
• Remote Technical support on the issue with working of the cluster.
  PARAM BILIM, IKCEICT, Kazakhstan — REMOTE HPC CLUSTER DEPLOYMENT
  Remote deployment and support for PARAM BILIM, Kazakhstan supercomputing
  Linux based HPC Cluster installed at S.R.T.M University Nanded – HPC CLUSTER DEPLOY
  Responsibilities: Taking care of hardware setup, configuration and deployment of the cluster software. HPC Cluster handover and signoff.
  Trainings and Workshops on administration and usability of the HPC Cluster. Remote Technical support on the issue with working of the cluster.
  Linux based HPC Cluster at Chemistry Department, NCL, Pune – HPC CLUSTER DEPLOY
  Responsibilities: Taking care of hardware setup, configuration and deployment of the cluster software. HPC Cluster handover and signoff.
  Trainings and Workshops on administration and usability of the HPC Cluster. Remote Technical support on the issue with working of the cluster.
  Linux based HPC Cluster at YCCE Nagpur – HPC CLUSTER DEPLOY Responsibilities: Taking care of hardware setup, configuration and
  deployment of the cluster software. HPC Cluster handover and signoff. Trainings and Workshops on administration and usability of the HPC Cluster. Remote Technical support on the issue with working of the cluster.
• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
  1. PARAM SHAVAK — May 2014 - Present
  Project Summary: PARAM Shavak is a ready-to-use affordable mini supercomputing solution pre-loaded with all the required system and application software from selected scientific and engineering domains.
  Responsibilities: Interaction with the stakeholders to get the requirements to design a compact yet powerful system in coordination with the design team. As part of technical evaluation committee helped in tendering, bid evaluation and technical evaluation of the proposed system based several parameters. Preparation of product documentation.
  Roles: System Solution Design, Development & Integration, Technical evaluation, Design & Implementation of Security Policies, System development, Product Documentation, Training activities for the marketing teams, Deployments at the client site.
  Technical Skills: Perl, Shell Scripting, Linux Administration, Configuration Automation with Ansible, kick-start Deployment and OS customization.
  2. INCLUS — SEPTEMBER, 2013 - Present
  Skill Sets Utilized: Perl & Shell Scripting, Linux administration, service configuration automation, kick-start deployment,
  Roles: Requirements Gathering, Discussion with Stakeholders, Software Development, System integration, Automated Cluster Building and Monitoring.
  Project Summary: Integrated Cluster Solution (InClus) a project for effortless HPC cluster building.
  Responsibilities: Requirement Analysis, frequent Interactions with the design team to add new features and troubleshooting issues. Worked on development of the project on all levels on frontend, backend, configuration automation and management. Interactions with development and QA testing team to solve the issues with builds and deployments. Cluster Deployment and System evaluation. automation and management.
  luster Deployment and System evaluation.

• Received D.G commendation for Outstanding Contribution Award for successful Deployment of PARAM SHIVAY HPC facility at BHU Varanasi under NSM
• Awarded Appreciation Certificate from YCCE Nagpur for HPC Cluster Deployment at IIT Bombay
• Awarded Letter of Appreciation Letter from Vice-Chancellor Burton L.M Mwamila of Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology for the deployment of PARAM KILIMANJARO Supercomputing facility at NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania which was inaugurated by Minister of Education, Tanzania.
• Awarded letter of Appreciation from Director General, CDAC Prof Rajat Moona for the deployment of PARAM KILIMANJARO Supercomputing facility at NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania
• Awarded Appreciation Certificate from CDAC’s Executive Director Dr. Hemant Darbari for work done as part of the PARAM SHAVAK project.