Daniel Holmes
Middleware Architect at Intel UK
Earlston, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Holmes is a Middleware Architect and Principal Software Engineer with 25+ years of experience designing high-performance, production-grade systems and pragmatic turnarounds. He specialises in HPC and supercomputing architectures, is a long-standing member of the MPI Forum, and has driven dramatic optimisations—e.g., cutting runtimes from 30 hours to 30 minutes and delivering 27x faster data processing—that enabled business model shifts to SaaS. Comfortable as both a hands-on developer and technical lead, he blends academic rigour (PhD in Computing, MSc in HPC) with industry impact across SMEs, research centres and enterprise clients including Intel and EPCC. Known for fast, tactical remediation of critical systems, he also designs scalable parallel solutions for scientific simulation and data-intensive workloads. Based in Earlston, Scotland, he brings a rare mix of standards-level influence and practical delivery that accelerates high-performance applications into production.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, High Performance Computing, Distinction, MSc, High Performance Computing, Distinction at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science - BS, Natural Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Natural Sciences at Durham University
Github Skills (14)
fortran10
mpi10
openmpi10
hpc9
termux7
linux-distribution6
linux6
android6
valgrind5
build-system3
mpi4py3
dask2
pmix2
macos2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EPiGRAM-HS/WP2-design-documents
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
HPC-Xyzzy/ompi
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Open MPI main development repository
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
mpi
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