Rik Kisnah - Blog

Rik Rekha Roy

Welcome to my little corner of the web! When I started an earlier version of this blog in 1999 (on older infrastructure), it was for me to share and reinforce what I learned over time. As time evolved, it became a mixture of my career evolution in tech and general life events. I live in Seattle. I speak English, French, Hindi, passable Mandarin and Bahasa Melayu, and Klingon. I have worked most of my career in cloud infrastructure, specializing in HPC and GPU technologies.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton

What You’ll Find Here

The intent of this blog is for me to share my journey, lessons learned, and articles I find interesting. I believe in continuous learning and sharing knowledge with the community.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed here are my personal views and do not reflect those of my past or current employers, nor do they represent the views of my community.


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Rik Kisnah
Engineer, husband, father. Building AI/GPU cloud infrastructure by day, sharing lessons learned by night. Faith and family first.

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