Chaance T. Graves

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 FacebookGoogleAmazon 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-programming

C/C++

Basic

Node.js

Proficient

Java

Basic

go-programming

Go

Beginner

Bash/Shell Scripting

Proficient

Git

Proficient

CI/CD

Basic

Docker

Proficient

Amazon Web Services

Proficient

mobo-design

PCB Design + Electronics

Proficient

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Leadership

Proficient

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Xeon Platform Applications Engineer

Intel Corporation

Jul 2017 – Present Santa Clara, California

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

Aug 2016 – May 2017 College Station, Texas
  • 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

This immersive program, jointly designed by Caltech CTME and Simplilearn, prepared me to develop cloud-native and mobile applications, modernized architectures, and expertise in agile software engineering operations. Skills covered throughout the duration of the program: • DevOps Methodology • Version Control • Continuous Integration • Continuous Delivery • Configuration Management • Containerization • Continuous Deployment • Testing • Cloud-native DevOps
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ValleyML AI Expo 2020

Virtual and global series of presentations and discussions centered around the evolution and practical applications of Enterprise AI, AI Robotics, and AI Hardware, etc.
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Artificial Intelligence: Implications for business strategy program

This certification covers in depth business strategies of how AI impacts various industries, the current innovations and future of Artificial Intelligence.
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Ungraduate Reseach Shcolars (Thesis)

Thesis written about the secure exchange process of data and experimentation of an Optical communications system.

B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering

Specialized in the subject matters related to Device Science/Nanotechnology and Information Science Systems.

Projects

Optimizing a Flask API microservice with Kubernetes

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

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.

Notebooks

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