Boda Liao has over 10 years of experience as a senior Linux administrator and data center builder. He has extensive expertise designing, building, and maintaining large-scale high performance computing clusters and storage systems for genomic sequencing companies. His skills include solutions for DNA sequencers, bioinformatics automation, large storage systems, high-speed networks, and cluster management using tools like Puppet.

1. BODA LIAO
(C): 650-284-9752; E-mail: liaoboda@gmail.com; Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boda-liao-00bb7a33 ; Address: 1921 California street,
Mountain View, 94040, CA
Experience
02/05/2016 ～Now BGI-shenzhen (part time )
• Senior Linux administrator
Maintain the HPC and storage system in CHOP(USA) and Denmark.
08/09/2014 ~ 22/01/2016 Complete genomics (CGI) Mountain View, USA
• Senior Linux administrator
Maintain the automatic sequencing IT system at CGI and transfer them to BGI-Shenzhen.
Installation with DHCP+Pxe+Kickstart.
Configuration with puppet.
Monitoring with Ganglia and nagious system.
Remote control with Ipmitool (remote screen redirect) and Megcli (command line make raid)
Jobs schedule software Scrat (writen by CGI) and SGE to manage the jobs.
Deploy and maintain shiny-server (rstudio) for research and develop team.
Maintain a Git server.
Bash script for crontab and monitor.
Help research team develop a new sequencer’s IT system with 100TB/run level throughput, and a small desktop
sequencer. Including the following technologies:
Mellanox infiniband FDR 56Gb/s, Big mtu (65000), bonding, partition, IPoIB, RDMA.
Nvidia Cuda 7.5 environment in Centos 7.
4 way 4TB memory server.Hugepage memory as a local disk.
Mapr system for storage, Isilon storage, Huawei storage, gcluster storage.
Focus on high-speed storage and achievements of high throughput DNA sequencing data, consultation for China gene
bank with a 50PB tier storage platform (iRods and archive solution).
5/12/2007 ~ 07/09/2014 BGI-Shenzhen (Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzhen) Shenzhen, China
• Data Center builder
Cofounder of High Performance Computer (HPC) platform at BGI, the world’s biggest genomic sequencing company.
Build all of six the BGI Data-Centers around the world.
• Senior system engineer
Design, build, deploy, maintain and update the HPC cluster.

2. Boda Liao (liaoboda@gmail.com)
Configure and Admin the platform with ~22,000 + CPU cores and ~20+PB storage.
Support thousands of bioinformaticians analyzing ~10+TB data per day from hundreds of high-throughput genomic sequencers
around the world.
6/30/2006 ~ 5/12/2007 BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) Beijing, China
• Linux system engineer
• BLC (Bioinformatics Linux Cluster) deploy
• Hardware and software test
Skills
• Expert knowledge of large-scale Linux HPC Cluster solution.
• Expert knowledge of large-scale Parallel Storage system: Isilon, Panasas, Lustre, Gluster, Mapr, HDS. I also have tested and have
performance data of the gpfs, blue arch, Oracle zfs (7410), HP Ibirix systems.
• Expert knowledge of data life cycle and archive.Experienced use Sun SL3000 tape system(2PB LTO4) and NBU, SAMFS+QFS,
Storenex, Luster HSM and iRods to archive files.
• Experienced IT solution for DNA Sequencers: Complete Genomics’ Private sequencers, Illumina Hiseq, Miseq ABI Solid, Thermo
Fisher Ion Torrent, Roche 454. I can design different IT solutions for different bioinformatics requests.
• Expert knowledge of sequencer and bioinformatics system automation.
• Expert knowledge of software management: puppet.
• Expert knowledge of storage skill: performance test, monitor and maintain.
• Expert knowledge of Linux skill: kickstart, dhcp, nfs, samba, http, ssh, partition, acl, bash.
• Expert knowledge of Rocks cluster: most of the clusters are based on Rocks and SGE job schedule system.
• Extensive experience in building data centers including the power and UPS system, the cooling-water system and air condition, the
rack and cable management.
• Experience remote control system such as ipmitool.
• Experience installing and compiling main different kernels, and making the rpm install package.
• Experience installing and compiling different bioinformatics software and libraries including yum source build.
• Expert knowledge of network solution with 10 Gb, 40Gb network and 56Gb Infiniband.
• Experience configuration of switch such as VLAN.
• Knowledge of HADOOP and Mapr.
• Knowledge of GPU system. We support another team to develop bioinformatics software on the GPU system.
• Knowledge of Virtualization: vmware, openstack.
Education
09/2002~06/2006 East China Jiaotong University (Nanchang, China) Bachelor of engineering
Major: Computer science and technology
Certification and Training

3. Boda Liao (liaoboda@gmail.com)
01/2014 Red Hat certified system administrator (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6)
11/2011 Isilon senior engineer training (EMC Isilon, Seattle, USA)
09/2011 Project Management Professional training (Shenzhen, China)