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Chaance T. Graves
Systems Engineer
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
About Me
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! 👋🏾
My name is Chaance Graves. Welcome to my website, where I share the projects that I’ve worked on or still tinkering with. I’m a creative problem solver eager to implement solutions to many issues foreseen in our modern society. In addition to that, I am also a big advocate for giving back to others who aspire to follow a path like mine.
I currently work at Intel Corporation in the Datacenter AI group as a Platform Applications Engineer. I provide technical support and expertise for Intel server CPUs and server board design development for customers such as Facebook, Google, Amazon Web Services, etc. My primary OEM customer designs cloud computing server systems for Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo!), Apple, Dropbox, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Interests
- Systems Engineering 💡
- Computer Architecture
- Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning)
- Wireless Communications (IoT)
- Renewable Energy systems
Education
BS in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Mathematics, 2017
Texas A&M University
Summer Study abroad program in EECS, 2015
USP, São Carlos, Brazil
Skills
Python
Proficient
C/C++
Basic
Node.js
Proficient
Java
Basic
Go
Beginner
Bash/Shell Scripting
Proficient
Git
Proficient
CI/CD
Basic
Docker
Proficient
Amazon Web Services
Proficient
PCB Design + Electronics
Proficient
Leadership
Proficient
Experience
Xeon Platform Applications Engineer
Intel Corporation
Responsibilities and milestones include:
- Lead interface of board design, Power-On, and enabling of hyperscale systems used for AI training and Big Data analytics.
- Earned Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75% or higher for customer responsiveness, clarity of communicating results and problem solving.
- Led integration tests and end-to-end execution of a cloud-based Xeon-SP provisioning feature.
- Developed test suites and scripting automation tools for lab infrastructure and remote debugging tools.
Undergraduate Researcher
Texas A&M University
- Developed use cases for optical wireless techniques (Laser/LED) for future IoT (Internet of Things) applications.
- Designed complete Optical Wireless Communications system and developed simulations and experiments for testing in MATLAB and Python.
Accomplishments
Post Graduate Program in DevOps
ValleyML AI Expo 2020
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for business strategy program
Ungraduate Reseach Shcolars (Thesis)
B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering
Recent Posts
Projects
Optimizing a Flask API microservice with Kubernetes
An end-to-end project that deploys a Flask API microservice to an AWS Kubernetes cluster with kOps and Ansible.
WordPress with LAMP Stack
This Ansible Playbook will install a WordPress Content Management System (CMS) within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) on two remote servers in a private network.