About
Kenny Sheridan
I am a former U.S. Marine and systems engineer focused on hardware, accelerated infrastructure, AI and machine learning platforms, virtualization, and open systems work.
After eight years as a Marine Corps meteorologist and instructor, I moved into hardware and infrastructure roles where racks, firmware, cooling, networking, software, operations, and customer delivery have to be understood together. That path has included startup environments, customer-specific infrastructure products, ServiceNow-scale operations, GPU platforms, regulated environments, and self-hosted systems.
I build and review systems that turn hardware fleets, GPU clusters, cooling systems, virtualized environments, and edge devices into operational capability. The work is usually less about a single tool and more about deciding what has to be observable, reproducible, secure, and reliable enough for the team that will operate it.
Useful When
A team needs to connect hardware symptoms, infrastructure behavior, product consequences, and customer or investor decisions.
Operators need practical evidence from real systems: topology, logs, firmware, drivers, workloads, validation results, and recovery paths.
Leadership needs a direct read on what to build, buy, validate, defer, or stop doing.
Operating Principles
How I Tend to Work.
I prefer evidence over theater: logs, topology, benchmarks, constraints, and operational reality.
I work best where hardware, software, product, and customer pressure meet.
I am comfortable translating between executives, engineers, vendors, operators, and investors.
I value conservative architecture: use new technology where it changes the outcome, not where it only changes the slide deck.
Background
A Path from Field Operations to AI Infrastructure.
2026-present
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure Product
Andromeda
Product-engineering work across AI infrastructure, bare-metal AI/HPC, Kubernetes, Slurm, SUNK, observability, edge environments, and customer-facing platform delivery.
2024-2026
Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco Compute Company
GPU marketplace infrastructure, automated H100 bring-up, Rust fleet tooling, and high-performance storage and network validation.
2024
Senior AI and Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer
TensorWave
Bare-metal AMD MI300X AI/HPC cluster architecture, Slurm/SUNK operating patterns, and vendor-agnostic infrastructure across networking, storage, and operational handoff.
2017-2023
Senior Hardware Infrastructure and Performance Engineer
ServiceNow
Enterprise hardware validation, storage and network systems, BIOS and firmware work, PCIe, FPGA, SmartNIC, Ceph, Weka, VAST, FedRAMP, and IL5 environments.
2007-2015
Meteorology Instructor and Systems Operator
U.S. Marine Corps
Operational forecasting, modular data centers, meteorology computing infrastructure, virtualized instructional environments, and field-oriented systems discipline.
Repos & Socials
Public Surfaces and Source Material.
Places to inspect public work, connect professionally, or find private collaboration surfaces.