Salman Khan M

Salman Khan M
📍 Bengalore, India 📱 +91 8524870151 ✉️khan001sallu@gmail.com

Objective:
Motivated IT professional aiming to contribute to organizational growth while enhancing expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC), Data Centre Operations, and Enterprise IT Infrastructure. Seeking challenging opportunities to leverage technical skills and problem‑solving abilities in advanced computing environments.

Education:
• MCA (Pursuing) – Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu
• B.Sc. Computer Science – Thiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu (71%)
• Intermediate (10th & +2) – Tamil Nadu State Board

Professional Certifications:
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (Ansible)
• NVIDIA Training: InfiniBand Essentials (2024), DGX A100 vHoT Installation (2022), DGX Technical Curriculum (2022), Compute Technical Curriculum (2022)
• AWS Certifications: Builders Online Series (2024), AWSOME Day Online Conference (2024)
• Data Centre Essentials: Power & Electricals

Summary of Skills & Experience:
• 6 years of experience in HPC cluster computing, data centre operations, and enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Expertise in Amazon EC2, security groups, and cloud‑based ticketing tools.
• Skilled in Ansible automation, scripting, and configuration management using XCAT.
• Managed HPC clusters under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) with peak performance of 1.8 PetaFlops.
• Strong knowledge of Linux OS troubleshooting, GPU hardware, file systems, and BMC/IPMI configuration.
• Experience in VMware, SAN/NAS storage, RAID groups, and parallel file systems.
• Proficient in SLURM and PBS job schedulers, resolving research workload issues for PhD projects.
• Hands‑on experience in Bioinformatics applications, benchmarking, and performance optimization.
• Skilled in Active Directory (AD) server maintenance, VM environment management, and semiconductor software handling.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve mission‑critical issues.

Work Experience:

HPC Engineer
Jan 2025 – Present | Micropoint Private Limited (MPCL), Bengalore
• Maintain Active Directory servers, including user group creation, policy updates, and access control.
• Administer VM environments, provisioning and troubleshooting enterprise workloads across cloud VMs (RHEL & Ubuntu).
• Handle semiconductor software (Cadence, Synopsys, and open‑source tools) for design/simulation; independently resolved critical issues impacting production workflows.
• Automated AD and VM operations, reducing downtime and administrative overhead.
• Managing LSF server for job scheduling and monitoring, ensuring efficient workload distribution.
• Virtuozzo virtualization and managed cloud infrastructure platforms to support enterprise applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolved Python environment issues affecting automation and scientific workflows.
• Installed and configured multiple desktop environments to support diverse user requirements.
• Handled remote software configuration and support using ETX, RealVNC, and NoMachine for secure remote access.

HPC Technology Associate
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 | SHI | Locuz Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Pune

• Configured and deployed DELL PowerEdge clusters using XCAT toolkit for automated provisioning and management.
• Hands‑on experience with PBS Pro job scheduler, including workload submission, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Installed and maintained scientific software packages for research workloads, ensuring compatibility and performance optimization.
• Diagnosed and resolved cluster issues related to compute nodes, storage, and interconnects, minimizing downtime.
• Collaborated with research teams to support computational applications and improve cluster efficiency.

Project:
• Copeland Pune – DELL PowerEdge R760 10 Node Cluster

HPC Data Centre Engineer (NSM)
Nov 2022 – Jul 2024 | JNCASR, Bangalore

• Created and launched multiple instances using Amazon EC2, configured security groups, managed volumes, and deployed computational applications for research workloads.
• Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks to automate cluster administration tasks, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Contributed to the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), managing a system with peak performance of 1.8 PetaFlops, including:
• 10 Master/Service/Login Nodes
• 107 CPU‑only Compute Nodes
• 42 GPU Nodes (Tesla V100)
• 39 High‑Memory Nodes
• 1 PB DDN Storage
• Administered a High Availability (HA) cluster of 112 nodes with peak performance of 104.64 CPU Teraflops and 25.74 GPU Teraflops, supported by a 300 TB Lustre storage server.
• Configured OpenSM and InfiniBand services using Mellanox adapters to enable massive data throughput across HPC workloads.
• Hands‑on experience with parallel file systems across multiple cluster environments.
• Managed job scheduling and workload distribution using SLURM and PBS Pro, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Provided advanced support for PhD research projects, resolving job issues, troubleshooting scripts, and assisting with data storage/output requirements.
• Specialized in user query resolution, bash scripting, and cluster troubleshooting, ensuring smooth operations for scientific computing projects.

Project:

• JNCASR Bangalore – NSM Param Yukti Supercomputer

HPC Support Engineer (L1)
Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 | BrainGrid Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (PAN India)

• Provided Level‑1 HPC support across PAN India installations, ensuring uptime and smooth operations for diverse research clusters.
• Assisted in cluster deployment and configuration, including node setup, storage integration, and scheduler tuning.
• Troubleshoot and resolved issues with job schedulers (SLURM, PBS), improving workload efficiency and reducing job failures.
• Supported bioinformatics and computational workloads for leading research institutes, ensuring compatibility of scientific applications.
• Installed and configured open‑source scientific software packages and libraries required for HPC workloads.
• Collaborated with senior engineers to escalate and resolve complex hardware/software issues in HPC environments.
• Documented troubleshooting steps and created knowledge base articles to streamline support for recurring issues.
• Gained hands‑on experience in Linux system administration, GPU node support, and parallel file systems.

Projects
• IISER Bhopal – Fujitsu 24‑Node Cluster Maintenance
• IISC Bangalore – CRYO‑EM Supermicro Storage with 4 GPU Nodes
• IIT Kanpur – CRYO‑EM Supermicro Workstation with GPU
• SRM University Andhra – Intel -3 CPU Compute Nodes Extension
• CHARUSTA Gujarat – NVIDIA DGX A100 GPU Server
• IIT Delhi – 2× AMD Servers
• KIIT Odisha – HEXADATA RM23808 2U Versatile Storage
• Avinashilingam CBR – DELL 2‑Node Server with NVIDIA Tesla A100

System Administrator
Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 | Phoenix Technova Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
• Managed Linux servers, VMware environments, SAN/NAS storage, and RAID configurations.
• Configured BMC/IPMI monitoring and resolved OS/hardware issues.
• Ensured system stability and security across enterprise infrastructure.

Technical Skills
• Compilers: Intel Parallel, GNU
• Cluster Toolkits: XCAT
• Operating Systems: RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE
• Virtualization: Docker, VMware, KVM
• Schedulers: SLURM, OpenPBS, LSF
• Package Manager: Spack
• Applications: Bioinformatics & Computational, Semiconductor tools
• Servers: NIS, NFS, DNS, FTP
• Web Server: Apache
• Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Cockpit, Grafana

Personal Details
• Date of Birth: 07/04/1996
• Nationality: Indian
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Unmarried
• Languages: Tamil, English, Kannada, Hindi

Place: Bangalore Salman Khan M

Date:

• Date of Birth: 07/04/1996
• Nationality: Indian
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Unmarried