Resume
Rik Kisnah
Lead Principal Systems Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for AI/ML Infrastructure
Seattle, Washington, United States
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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
Full-time · 7 years 6 months
Seattle, Washington, United States
Lead Principal Systems Software Engineer
June 2026 - Present (1 month)
On-site
- Leads the OCI GPU Infrastructure team, delivering AI infrastructure solutions for AMD and NVIDIA platforms at scale.
- Drives data plane and performance initiatives that improved system efficiency, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Delivers brown bag sessions and public presentations to share technical knowledge and strengthen engineering alignment.
- Serves as a technical advisor to senior executives, helping shape strategic architecture and engineering decisions.
- Contributes to patents and invention disclosures in GPU infrastructure, AI systems, and high-performance cloud computing.
Skills: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Infrastructure, GPU Infrastructure
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
August 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
On-site
Tech lead for AI/ML Infrastructure for HPC/GPU Product offerings.
Skills: Go, Technical Consultation, HPC/GPU Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Automation, Systems Management, Integrated Systems
Principal Engineer
January 2021 - August 2024 (3 years 8 months)
On-site
Tech lead for OCI - Compute - HPC/GPU organization.
Skills: Go, Python, HPC/GPU Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Software Infrastructure
Principal Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
January 2019 - December 2020 (2 years)
- Team: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/
- Products:
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
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