Zaid McKie-Krisberg

AI Architect at Cisco Systems

Role
Ai Architect at Cisco
Location
Brooklyn, NY, US
LinkedIn followers
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About Zaid McKie-Krisberg

Avid technologist specializing in distributed computing platforms optimizing various…

Experience

  1. Ai Architect

    Cisco

    Sep 2024 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

    As a core member of the AI as a Service (AIaaS) Team, lead efforts to stand up of distributed platform infrastructure at multiple locations, serving as SME for node boot/provision for this environment. This includes 100+ DGX/HGX H100/200 & Cisco UCS hosts managed via stateless provisioning. Engineered installation and deployment of workloads management via Kubernetes & Slurm supporting AI based workloads. Examples of enabled features include: OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for k8s, multifactor priority, and job preemption for slurm.Core contributor of InfraOps automations for including, SSO/MFA authentication (Okta & Duo), k8s bootstrapping, upgrades, ServiceNow registration, etc, using a Github Actions, Ansible-based approach.

Education

  • University of Illinois Chicago

    Master of Science (MS), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    2006 — 2009

  • University of California, Davis

    BS, Plant Sciences

    2002 — 2005

  • University of Oregon

    Environmental Science

    1999 — 2001

  • Temple University

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology

    2009 — 2014

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