---
title: "Vivi Richard - Tech Lead (HPC Architect / Cloud Infrastructure) in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Vivi Richard, Senior Platform Engineer | HPC Architect | DevOps Engineer | Cloud Administrator | Linux Administrator (MS Azure / AWS / On-prem ) based in Chennai."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/vivi/share-image"
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# Vivi Richard on Tal

## Headline

Senior Platform Engineer \| HPC Architect \| DevOps Engineer \| Cloud Administrator \| Linux Administrator \(MS Azure / AWS / On\-prem \)

## About

Platform Architect and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 9\+ years of experience in designing and operating enterprise\-scale High\-Performance Computing \(HPC\), Cloud and Kubernetes environments\. Experienced in AWS, Kubernetes \(EKS/ECS\), Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and hybrid cloud platforms\. Passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that enables engineering teams to deliver efficiently\. 🔹 HPC & Slurm Workload Manager 🔹 AWS & Azure 🔹 Kubernetes \(EKS, ECS\) 🔹 Terraform & Infrastructure as Code 🔹 GitHub Actions & CI/CD 🔹 Docker & Containerization 🔹 Grafana & Observability 🔹 Linux Administration Interested in Platform Architecture, HPC, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, SRE, and Cloud Infrastructure opportunities\. Always open to connecting with professionals in Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and HPC\. Known for improving system scalability, reliability, and performance while quickly adapting to new technologies

## Location

Chennai

## Work experience

Tech Lead \(HPC Architect / Cloud Infrastructure\) at Cognizant, Aug 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

HPC Engineer \(Cloud computing\) at Capgemini, Oct 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore, HPC Engineer Managing the High\-Performance Compute environments  Building, installing and executing scientific software and other 3rd party software applications on HPC systems  Working with the HPC technologies such as multiprocessing, large clusters of systems, large storage systems\.  Work as part of a team to fulfill specific job responsibilities as well as the broad\-based objectives of a well\-integrated high performance computing support team  Provide technical conceptual guidance to other group members and management and suggest directions for investigations

Engineer at quest global engineering services Pvt Ltd, Aug 2018 \- Jul 2020 · 2 yrs

Assistant structural engineer at Banglore Aircraft Industries Pvt Ltd, Dec 2015 \- Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Aeronautical Engineering, Sathyabama University

Schooling, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Pannur

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