Saba
Sets BIOS options across a whole HPC build over the Redfish API, so every node in a cluster ships with the same configuration and nobody clicks through setup screens.
Built with Bash, Redfish API
Frank Cashio
Linux and HPC systems engineer, full-stack developer, and game developer in Lawrence, Kansas.
Available now for contract and full-time work
I run Linux and HPC clusters and write the automation that keeps them consistent.
- Administered 200+ Linux cluster nodes and 100+ workstations as the primary Linux and HPC owner on a three-person team.
- Built Saba, which cut per-node BIOS configuration from about 10 minutes by hand to under a minute unattended.
- Configured and supported HPC systems delivered to NASA JPL, Beyond New Horizons (AEDC), PNNL, Jefferson Lab, and the University of Chicago.
Experience
Software Engineer & Systems Administrator, Atipa Technologies
Promoted from Junior Linux Systems Administrator to Software Engineer within four months, while keeping systems administration duties.
- Administered 200+ Linux cluster nodes and 100+ workstations with Slurm workload scheduling as the primary Linux and HPC owner on a three-person team.
- Maintained, troubleshot, and tuned enterprise Linux across Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Rocky Linux.
- Developed Saba, a Bash and Redfish tool that cut per-node BIOS configuration from about 10 minutes hands-on to under one minute unattended.
- Built and maintained an RMA tracking app in Next.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and the FedEx API, replacing a spreadsheet and manual lookups and saving about 5 hours a week.
- Configured and supported HPC systems delivered to NASA JPL, Beyond New Horizons (AEDC), PNNL, Jefferson Lab, and the University of Chicago, including systems of 50+ nodes.
Work
RMA tracker
Internal app for hardware returns. It pulls live FedEx status for every RMA so the operations team stopped chasing tracking numbers in a spreadsheet.
Built with Next.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, FedEx API
CraveSmart
A free iPhone app for the recipes you cook at home. Add a recipe once, see its macros per serving, and fit a serving into what is left of your day.
Built with React Native, Expo, GCP authentication and storage, USDA nutrition data
Japanese pronunciation trainer
Listens to you say a word, breaks it into phonemes, and scores how close you were with edit distance. Cards come from your Anki deck.
Built with Python, TensorFlow, Anki
Meaty's Mortuary
First-person horror in a run-down mortuary. A creeper AI roams the building and you keep the generators running to survive.
Built with Unreal Engine 4, Blueprints, Blender, Substance Painter
Shotgun Santa
A holiday shooter built in one day, with three characters modeled, rigged, animated, and textured from scratch.
Built with Unreal Engine 4, Blueprints, Blender, Substance Painter
The Megalodon
Underwater survival horror in a flooded cave, built in one day. The shark hunts by reacting to where you go and how you move.
Built with Unreal Engine 4, Blueprints
Skills
- Systems & HPC
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Rocky Linux), Slurm, Redfish, BIOS management, InfiniBand, NFS and parallel storage, NVIDIA GPU nodes and CUDA drivers, PXE and Warewulf provisioning, MPI, monitoring, Windows
- Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Bash, C++, C, C#, Java
- Web & mobile
- React, React Native, Next.js, Expo, HTML, CSS, REST APIs
- Cloud & DevOps
- GCP, AWS, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD, N8N
- Data & ML
- MongoDB, Firestore, SQL, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, NLP
- Games & 3D
- Unreal Engine 4 and 5, Blueprints, Unity, Blender, Substance Painter, rigging, animation
- Practices
- Automated testing (Jest, Vitest, pytest), CI/CD pipelines, Agile and Scrum
Education
University of Kansas, coursework in computer science and physics