About

Juan Alvarez is an experienced Staff Software Engineer at IBM with a solid expertise in Unix/Linux development, installation, configuration, and maintaining system environments. With over 17 years of relevant experience, he has worked on all levels of driver development cycle, firmware development, and cloud infrastructure development. Juan is detail-driven with outstanding analytical and creative skills, making him an asset in solving problems in an agile development environment in proprietary or open-source software. He has thorough knowledge in performance, functional integration, system and regression testing, and has worked on various projects involving bare metal cluster infrastructure software for PowerAI and cluster installation software for PowerAI software on x86. In his current role at IBM, Juan is responsible for developing software for bare metal cluster infrastructure software for PowerAI and testing cluster installation software for PowerAI software on x86. He has also designed and developed a single process event-driven framework for SRIOV driver development under PowerVM and developed and enabled SR-IOV PF of Linux Kernel under PowerVM. Juan's past experience at IBM includes working as a Staff Software Engineer where he designed and developed Linux shared driver interface for an SRIOV PowerVM, developed and enabled SR-IOV PF of Linux Kernel under PowerVM, and designed and developed SRIOV PowerVM NIC and RoCE Cx4 Mellanox Driver. He has also worked as a Software Engineer where he maintained enterprise SRIOV NIC Driver for PowerVM Hypervisor based on Houston Lancer Adapter, developed testing software for SRIOV NIC Driver functionality, and provided IT support for testing and development systems using Linux, AIX, VIOS, and IBMi. Juan's tech stack includes software engineering, senior software engineering, test, infra, and integration. With his extensive experience and expertise, Juan is a valuable asset to any organization.