Jeff Bowles

 

San Francisco Bay Area

Experience

Tesla | Palo Alto, CA

Staff Software Engineer | January 2019 - Present

Staff Software Engineer on the Autopilot Infrastructure team


LinkedIn | Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | December 2017 - January 2019

SRE for the Pinot team: https://github.com/linkedin/pinot


New Mexico Consortium | Los Alamos, NM

Senior Systems Programmer | October 2013 - December 2017

Responsibilities included optimizing and adding functionality to existing C++ code bases, and managing and building clusters.

  • Improved the speed of an in house C++ machine learning library by 10x using OpenMP, MPI and CUDA.

  • Added a diskless provisioning system to the Emulab cluster management system by using Python, Flask, REST, Linux, iSCSI and ZFS.

  • Architected and supervised the building multiple clusters, the largest had 1176 nodes.

  • Created various cluster management utilities using Python and C for handling remote console, remote power and serial console logging.

  • Performed day to day cluster management using Linux, FreeBSD, Warewulf, slurm, Emulab, NFS, and SSH.


University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM

Senior Applications Support Analyst | May 2007 - October 2013

Responsibilities: Write C++, GLSL and GPGPU write code, sysadmin

  • Implemented DomeLib, a C++/OpenGL/Qt based application framework that simplified the design of multiprojector-based applications in an immersive dome environment.

  • Created GPU-based simulations using OpenGL.

  • Mentored students in the use of OpenGL.

  • Implemented an automated, scalable version controlled systems administration management platform using Puppet.

  • Improved reliability and uptime through the use of virtualization technologies and load balancing.

  • Perform day-to-day systems administration tasks using Linux and other Unix-like technologies.

  • Assisted with general debugging and maintenance of custom software written in the UNM Computer Science Department.


ZiaNet | Santa Fe, NM

Senior Applications Developer and Systems Administrator | January 2002 - May 2007

Responsibilities: Write custom software, sysadmin, manage technical aspects of acquiring ISPs, manage custom billing codebase, manage email, day-to-day systems administration.

  • Coordinated the technical aspects of the acquisition of ten companies. This included writing custom software to merge customer owned onto ZiaNet infrastructure and to provide seamless integration of services with as little downtime as possible.

  • Developed and maintained custom web-based billing software using Perl, Apache and MySQL.

  • Developed and maintained custom web-based spam filtering software based on SpamAssassin, ClamAV and MySQL.

  • Played a principal part in the design, implementation and continued administration of a highly available and reliable email system that handled twenty million messages per day for sixty thousand mailboxes using Linux Virtual Server, qmail and Network Appliance filers.

  • Performed day-to-day systems administration using a combination of Linux and FreeBSD.


Blueprint Networks | Santa Fe, NM

Senior Consultant | November 1999 - January 2002

Responsibilities: write custom software, provide heavy lifting systems administration

  • Designed, developed and tested web-based software for customers such as Sony Pictures using PHP and Perl.

  • Designed and developed online ordering and warehouse management system in Perl for a fulfillment company.

  • Specified, installed and configured custom Linux and Sun systems to provide web services.

  • Provided heavy lifting systems administration support to non-technical computer consultants providing web-based services.


Santa Fe County | Santa Fe, NM

Network and Systems Administrator | May 1997 - November 1999

Responsibilities: network and systems administration

  • Architected and administered a five site wide-area network using frame relay, T1s and Cisco routers and switches.

  • Performed system administration duties using Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows NT and NetApp file servers.

  • Managed and supported Sun Solaris systems running GIS applications.


Sandia National Laboratory | Albuquerque, NM

Research Assistant | June 1996 - June 1997

Responsible for assisting with adding internode communication facilities to the Puma operating system

  • Assisted in the design, testing and documentation of internode communication and debugging utilities using C.


Los Alamos National Laboratory | Los Alamos, NM

Research Assistant | May 1994 - August 1995

Designed, implemented and documented a C++ object-oriented framework for data acquisition in support of the Combined Thermal/Epithermal Neutron waste assay system.


Education

The University of New Mexico | 2008 - 2013

Master of Science, Computer Science

The University of New Mexico | 1993 - 1997

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science