Joshua Nave

Principal Solutions Engineer

20+ years across infrastructure, automation, and application development. I build what's needed.

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Experience

Principal Solutions Engineer @ Bell Integration

Dec 2024 - Present

Technical lead for greenfield HPC datacenter in UAE: 1,250 nodes x 8 AMD MI210 GPUs (10,000+ GPUs). Owned the entire implementation lifecycle from rack-and-stack through production handoff.
Diagnosed and resolved architectural gaps in IBM CP4AIOps deployment. Rebuilt operator configurations and integrated with Argo CD for GitOps management.
Architected repeatable HPC deployment framework using Ansible and Terraform, now the standard for international datacenter builds across multiple client engagements.
Primary technical escalation point for vendor misconfigurations across networking, storage, and virtualization stacks.
Technical screener for all technical roles company-wide. Evaluate candidates on architecture, problem-solving, and hands-on knowledge.
Develop AI/ML proof-of-concepts for clients: RAG pipelines, multi-agent frameworks, LLM infrastructure. Handle full stack from model fine-tuning and pre-training through deployment infrastructure.
Architecting dedicated AI PoC lab: 16x H100 GPUs, 16x L40 GPUs, high-memory compute cluster, Cisco/Arista networking, NetApp storage.

Senior Automation Engineer @ Soundhound

Oct 2018 - Dec 2024

Sole owner of automation for 4,000+ production hosts. Built and maintained the tooling that kept the fleet patched and consistent.
Reverse-engineered undocumented legacy systems to enable new deployment patterns. Read source code when documentation was unavailable.
Built custom APIs and integration layers for services lacking native interfaces.
Reduced deployment times from hours to minutes by eliminating manual processes and human error vectors.
Integrated disparate monitoring and data sources into unified MLops pipelines for predictive analysis.

Senior Consultant @ CPrime

Dec 2021 - Nov 2024

Technical consultant for client projects. Handled infrastructure, applications, networking - whatever was broken. Cut deployment times by 50%+ with Terraform.
Took a monolithic application and broke it into containerized microservices, reducing error rates by 90%.
Built Ansible toolkits that clients still use for day-to-day operations after engagement ended.
Principal architect for complex cross-functional infrastructure problems.

Senior Consultant @ Contegix

Dec 2015 - Oct 2018

Full-stack technical support for high-profile clients. Infrastructure, applications, networking, firewalls.
Managed VMware ESXi and AWS environments. Administered large-scale JunOS and Cisco deployments.
Owned firewall architecture: iptables, pfSense, Shorewall.

Senior Systems Support Engineer @ AT&T

Jun 2006 - Oct 2018

Maintained 99.99% uptime for 7,000+ server VoIP platform. On-call for critical incident response.
Built automation that provisioned systems across four departments, replacing manual processes.
Owned change management for 1,500+ VoIP application servers. Patched Oracle clusters including Data Guard configs.
Created database-driven web apps that eliminated 30%+ of manual workload by replacing inadequate internal tooling.

Python, Go, Bash, Perl, Ruby, Java

Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt

Docker, Kubernetes, LXC, Argo CD, Harbor

AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Proxmox, VMware ESXi

Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nebula, WireGuard, pfSense

FreeIPA, Keycloak, Entra ID, OIDC, LDAP, SAML

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Zabbix, ELK Stack, Splunk

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, CouchDB, pgvector

NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, vLLM, Ollama, RAG pipelines

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD

(314) 570-7102 Warrenton, MO