Coming from the IT-Service side I am deeply interested to improve the ease of use of every part within the HPC community. Practical hand-on: Performance & Log Management, Interconnect, Cluster Management most likely OpenSource. Theoretically I like to wrap my head around routing, graph theory, scaling, monitoring design and alike.

Release Engineer @ Ensure a splendid end-user experience of the video game streaming service, by contributing to an architecture which benefits our operational personnel and therefore our customers. Provide a well suited system to move forward fast, solve problems quickly and even predict what is going to happen in the future. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Berlin Area, GermanyCxO @ Following my IT passions to enhance the usage of infrastructure and software stacks. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) DevOps Engineer @ Operate a local-commerce platform on AWS using CloudFormation. The stack was comprised of: - Ruby frontend - Elasticsearch as a search backend - MongoDB, Redis as data backends - Ruby monolith for data processing - integrate services like Loggly, DataDog, Slack Envision and shape the next generation infrastructure using - docker (EC2 Container Services, private Dockerhub registry) - terraform, consul - golang API From December 2014 to June 2015 (7 months) R&D HPC Engineer @ High-Level Fabric Management of BXI (Bull Exascale Interconnect) - Performance Data Gathering - Processing of incomming performance metrics - Store large amount of metric datapoints - Visualize this data to enhance the EndUser experience Announcement of BXI: http://www.wcm.bull.com/internet/pr/new_rend.jsp?DocId=893305&lang=en From January 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 10 months) Paris Area, FranceSenior Systems Engineer @ As an Senior Systems Engineer Christian Kniep maintains a FEM cluster with 3000++ nodes. From November 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 2 months) IT Lecturer @ Giving IT classes about Linux, Python, git, networking, etc. From July 2010 to October 2010 (4 months) Systems Engineer @ Project to benchmark CAE workstation for the use within the german automotive industry, projects in behalf of Daimler AG From September 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 11 months) IT Consultant @ on-site IT Consultant for AUDI AG From September 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 1 month) IT Specialist (Alterance) @ Traineeship at the IT department of the University of Lüneburg, where I get in touch with Linux and bash, php programming. My final project was a TV capturing system using a work-flow (define recording, crop, encode, burn) with bash scripts. From August 2002 to August 2005 (3 years 1 month)

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science @ Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen From 2008 to 2011 Christian Kniep is skilled in: High Performance Computing, Docker, Scalability, Cluster, Software Development, Open Source, Distributed Systems, Amazon EC2, logstash, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ElasticSearch, Linux, Python, Infiniband, Red Hat Linux