Venkat Namala
AI Infrastructure Architect
GPU • Kubernetes • Hybrid Cloud Platforms
About Me
AI Infrastructure Architect with 18+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed platforms. Specializing in GPU-accelerated Kubernetes, HPC, hybrid cloud, and enterprise AI infrastructure across multi-cloud architectures. Trusted technical leader delivering resilient, cost-efficient, and secure AI platforms across semiconductor, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, and energy domains.
GPU & HPC
CUDA, RDMA, InfiniBand, SLURM, topology-aware scheduling for distributed AI training
Kubernetes & OpenShift
Enterprise-grade container orchestration across AKS, EKS, GKE, bare-metal, and VMware
Multi-Cloud
AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud — architecting resilient, cost-efficient AI platforms
DevSecOps
GitOps, CI/CD, IaC automation with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and security governance
Experience
18+ years building platforms at scale
- ▸Architected GPU-accelerated Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms supporting large-scale AI/ML training and inference workloads across on-prem bare-metal, VMware, and Azure environments
- ▸Integrated SLURM with Kubernetes to enable hybrid, GPU-aware scheduling across research, AI, and HPC workloads
- ▸Engineered RDMA and InfiniBand-enabled clusters with topology-aware scheduling for low-latency distributed training
- ▸Defined GPU capacity planning, bin-packing, and utilization strategies across heterogeneous AMD and NVIDIA GPU fleets
- ▸Built enterprise-grade observability for AI platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor with GPU-level metrics
- ▸Implemented IaC automation using Terraform, MAAS, Helm, and GitOps pipelines for GPU-enabled Kubernetes infrastructure
Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms
Kubernetes & Containers
AI / HPC
DevOps & IaC
Observability
Data & Streaming
Languages
Security
Storage
Certifications & Competencies
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF / Linux Foundation
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management - Architect
IBM
MuleSoft Certified Developer
MuleSoft
PG Program - Multi-Cloud Solution Architect
UT Austin
PG Program - Azure GenAI for Business
UT Austin
Core Competencies
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering — SV University
Leadership & Community
Telugu Cultural Association of Austin — President (2017-2018), Board of Director (2018-2022)
Let's Connect
Interested in discussing AI infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, or cloud architecture? I'd love to hear from you.