Monty Poppe
Senior QA and Software Architect at DDN Storage
- Role
- Senior Qa and Software Architect at DDN
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Monty Poppe
Senior Architect in high-performance storage systems, specializing in QA leadership and strategy. Open to senior positions in Quality Architecture, Software Test Engineering, and Product Management. Career Highlights - System Test Architect for DDN Infinia, powering xAI’s Colossus supercomputer to process petabyte-scale AI workloads - Led IBM Spectrum Storage testing for Summit (#1 world ranking) and Sierra (#2 world ranking) supercomputers, achieving world’s fastest storage system ranking (TOP 500, 2018)- Architected DDN’s EXAScaler automated support ecosystem, enhancing system reliability for leading AI systems at OpenAI and NVIDIA - 15-plus years enterprise-level products built on open-source software: Lustre, SPDK, liburing, Apache Spark & Hadoop, RHEL Server, Linux kNFS, NFS-Ganesha, Samba, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL
Experience
Senior Qa and Software Architect
Aug 2019 — Present
System Test Architect – (2024 – Feb 2025)Test Architect – DDN Infinia • Developed test strategy for Infinia’s 180 PB deployment, scaling to 240 nodes for xAI’s Colossus supercomputer GPUs)• Architected test framework to automate the testing of a scale-out software-defined storage system and multi-tenant AI-based client software stack (Apache Spark & Hadoop, Java, Python, and S3)• Automated Apache Spark cluster deployment and associated tests and workloadsSenior Software Architect – (2019 – 2024)- Hired by Chief Technology Officer, Reported to Senior Vice President of Support - Improved Support team’s productivity and responsiveness by designing and delivering an AI-based log collection and analytics ecosystem for key customers - Architect of a Support Ecosystem that included client-side log collection and upload, and a web portal for the Support team. Currently in use on many of the top AI systems at OpenAI and NVIDIA- Reduced Support team’s time to resolution and time to first contact; and increased customer satisfaction
Education
Texas A&M University
BS, Computer Science
1992 — 1996
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