Jon Thor K

Lead HPC/Grid Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Millennium Management • Jul 2023 - Present • London, UK (Hybrid)

• • Leading enterprise-scale HPC platform transformation to support quantitative trading teams, portfolio managers, developers, and data scientists
• • Architecting hybrid cloud HPC infrastructure seamlessly integrating on-premises and public cloud resources using Slurm scheduling at scale
• • Developed comprehensive automation framework using Ansible playbooks with custom APIs for dynamic inventory management
• • Built full-stack self-service platform with Go-based APIs/CLIs and React web interface for on-demand cluster provisioning
• • Created advanced tooling ecosystem for workload scheduling optimization and performance analysis across trading operations

Interim Product Manager of MAAS / Product Manager of HPC

Canonical • Feb 2022 - Jul 2023 • London, UK

• As Product Manager of HPC (Feb 2022 - Jul 2023):
• • Reported directly to CEO Mark Shuttleworth to lead Canonical's HPC strategy
• • Leveraged Ubuntu's 14% HPC market share and dominance in AI training workloads
• • Forged strategic partnership with NVIDIA for InfiniBand optimization on Ubuntu
• • Authored industry-recognized reference architectures with leading OEMs
• • Built thought leadership through presentations at Open Infrastructure Summit, ARM Dev Summit, NASA Cybersecurity Day
• As Interim Product Manager of MAAS (Apr 2022 - Jul 2023):
• • Defined strategic roadmap for Metal as a Service focusing on HPC cluster provisioning
• • Architected critical features: diskless booting, InfiniBand support, cluster delivery
• • Established five-year product vision influencing current development cycles

CTO HPCFLOW

atNorth • Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 • England, UK (Contract)

• • Scaled HPCFLOW platform from single to multi-regional HPC-as-a-Service offering
• • Developed enterprise-grade HPCaaS with Intel Select Solutions and Open HPC
• • Led pre-sales and solution architecture for enterprise HPC requirements
• • Pioneered Omni Path vFabric multi-tenancy integrated with OpenStack Neutron
• • Engineered custom networking for HPE Flex Fabric and Cumulus OS environments
• • Presented at ISC HPC and Supercomputing conferences

Senior Solution Architect HPC

Advania • May 2016 - Jan 2018 • Reykjavík, Iceland

• • Architected and built HPCFLOW IaaS platform for HPC/AI workloads from ground up
• • Integrated OpenStack, Ironic, Packer, Slurm, and Ceph for HPC clusters as service
• • Led pre-sales technical consulting enabling cloud migration at on-premises performance
• • Pioneered early Kubernetes adoption (v1.0 in 2016) for internal services
• • Leveraged HPE Performance Cluster Manager for automated HPC deployment

Senior Deployment Engineer / Core Developer

GreenQloud • Dec 2013 - Apr 2016 • Reykjavík, Iceland

• As Senior Deployment Engineer (Aug 2014 - Apr 2016):
• • Architected cloud infrastructure using Chef automation and Apache CloudStack
• • Pioneered automated deployment for private cloud components
• • Developed bare metal provisioning for CloudStack with multi-tenant networking
• As Core Developer (Dec 2013 - Aug 2014):
• • Extended Apache CloudStack core capabilities using Java
• • Developed custom features expanding enterprise platform capabilities

Programmer

Destino • Jun 2011 - May 2013 • Stavanger, Norway

• • Developed enterprise content management system using C# and JavaScript
• • Introduced SCRUM methodology and continuous integration workflows
• • Built full-stack web applications with robust performance
• • Established CI/CD pipelines automating testing and deployment

Charmed Operator Day • Technical Session

Introducing MAAS and how Juju charms can be used to deploy bare metal HPC workloads directly to a cluster of nodes through MAAS.

OpenStack for Computational Workloads

OpenInfra Summit • Technical Presentation

HPC, HPDA, and ML workloads demand flexibility and agility while requiring optimal performance at scale. A deep-dive into delivering computational workloads on OpenStack.

HPC on Ubuntu: Strategy and Ecosystem

ARM Dev Summit • Technical Presentation

Canonical's HPC strategy on ARM architecture — Ubuntu's role in HPC workloads on Ampere and other ARM-based systems.

Multi-Tenant HPC Infrastructure

ISC High Performance • Technical Session

How HPCFLOW built multi-tenant HPC-as-a-Service at scale — bare metal provisioning, Omni Path vFabric isolation, and enterprise-grade SLAs.

HPC in the Cloud: Lessons from the Field

Supercomputing (SC) • Technical Session

Practical lessons from building and operating HPC-as-a-Service platforms — performance, networking, and the realities of cloud HPC at enterprise scale.