Resume
Rik Kisnah
Senior Principal Engineer (HPC/GPU) at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for AI/ML Infrastructure Seattle, Washington, United States
In God we Trust, all others bring data
Summary
Experienced Engineer with domain expertise in DevOps/CICD/Testing/Automation/HPC/GPU/ML/AI in the Cloud. My passion is building teams and solving big-scale problems.
Products delivered chronologically: Motorola phones, Aeroflex PXI, Amazon Kindle, AWS EC2 Windows, AWS Workspaces, AWS Load Balancers, Oracle Cloud Bare Metal, Oracle HPC/GPU.
Contact Information
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Phone: +1 206 724 5771
- Email: rikesh@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rikkisnah
Top Skills
- Technical Consultation
- Systems Management
- Integrated Systems
- DevOps/CICD
- HPC/GPU Infrastructure
- Cloud Architecture
Languages
- Creoles and pidgins, French-based - Native or Bilingual
- English - Native or Bilingual
- French - Native or Bilingual
- Hindi - Elementary
- Mandarin - Passable
- Bahasa Melayu - Passable
- Klingon - (just for fun!)
Certifications
- Java Developer
- MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer)
- AWS Solutions Architect
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
Experience
Oracle
6 years 10 months
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
August 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months) Seattle, Washington, United States
Tech lead for AI/ML Infrastructure for HPC/GPU Product offerings
Principal Engineer
January 2021 - August 2024 (3 years 8 months) Seattle, Washington, United States
Tech lead for OCI - Compute - HPC/GPU organization.
- Team: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/
- Products:
Principal Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
January 2019 - December 2020 (2 years) Seattle, Washington, United States
Amazon Web Services
Senior System Development Engineer December 2012 - December 2018 (6 years 1 month) Seattle
Team: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
Previous Products:
- AWS Workspaces: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
- Amazon Kindle
- AWS EC2 Windows
Aeroflex
Principal Staff Development Engineer June 2010 - December 2012 (2 years 7 months)
- Develop PXI Applications solutions for RF tests for Qualcomm chipsets
- Architect test solutions for APAC customers
- Pre-sales support to showcase PXI capabilities
Motorola
Senior Staff Software Engineer January 2002 - June 2009 (7 years 6 months)
Mobile device development and innovation
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postgraduate Degree, Advanced AI/LLMs 2024 - 2026 (In Progress)
The University of Texas at Austin
Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence 2019
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
MSc, Computer Science - Neural Networks 2007
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
BASc, Computer Engineering - Machine Learning 2001
Last Updated: October 2025