I’m Tolga, a Computer Engineering student at Clemson. I build and operate Linux systems, automate infrastructure, and explore what makes distributed systems reliable.
Previously at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Currently administering Clemson’s student HPC cluster.
A three-node Kubernetes homelab built on Lenovo mini PCs. Ansible manages the hosts; Prometheus and Grafana provide observability. Controlled failures expose the limits of scheduling and local storage.
Inside the homelabA TCP benchmarking tool written in C. Measures round-trip latency and sending throughput, with percentile reporting and socket I/O that handles partial transfers.
Explore the sourceA local inference pipeline split across two NVIDIA Jetson devices, connecting object detection, facial recognition, and web alerts over Ethernet.
CUHackit 2026 · 2nd, Best Use of Hardware
Explore the sourceHPC Intern · AI Infrastructure
Automated containerized Linux/HPC infrastructure for the CIRCE AI platform using Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Slurm, and Podman. Benchmarked retrieval backends to inform the design of an HPC-hosted RAG system.
¹ Identified a higher-throughput backend in the evaluated retrieval workload. Results are specific to that benchmark.
HPC System Administrator
Administer Clemson’s Rocky Linux student HPC cluster, running distributed workloads and tuning performance with Slurm, MPI, HPL, and HPL-MxP. Worked with a heterogeneous cluster incorporating NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
Served as system administrator at SCC25 and am returning for SCC26. Also co-built a 16-node Raspberry Pi cluster for student competition work.
AI Coding / Math Expert
Wrote, tested, and evaluated programming and mathematical solutions across C++, Python, Java, Kotlin, and JavaScript.
Undergraduate Robotics Researcher
Integrated robotic sensors with Python and C++ and built real-time telemetry for a digital twin.
I like work where software meets the machine: understanding a slow network path, making a cluster reproducible, or finding out what actually happens when a node goes offline.
My focus spans systems, cloud, SRE, and infrastructure engineering. HPC has given me hands-on experience with the Linux, networking, and performance problems that connect those fields.
Linux · Rocky Linux · systemd · TCP/IP · POSIX sockets · NFS · InfiniBand / RDMA
Ansible · Kubernetes · Docker · Podman · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI/CD · AWS · Terraform
Prometheus · Grafana · Slurm · MPI · OpenMP · HPL / HPL-MxP · perf
C · C++ · Python · Bash
Also: Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Lua, SQL
Currently studying for AWS Solutions Architect – Associate.
Systems, infrastructure, cloud, and reliability engineering.