Ben Davies
Director Global AI Infrastructure
Hi, how are you? (In a Welsh accent)
Nice to meet you, I’m Ben, a few facts about me:
- Rugby player.
- Canelo Alvarez' chubby double.
- Ginger legend.
I am the Director of Global AI Infrastructure at Hamilton Barnes.
My teams are key partners to AI start-ups, AI CSPs, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Hyperscalers/Colocation Providers across the globe.
We specialise in various technological domains, including:
- Critical Facilities (PDU, HVAC, PSUs, etc)
- Data Centres (EVPN/VxLAN/SPINE LEAF…)
- AI Infra (GPU Cluster deployments - Infiniband, NVIDIA, RoCE/IB/NCCL/RDMA fabrics, Slurm/K8s/Ray, NCCL behaviours, MIG, MLOps/LLMOps)
- IP Core networks (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS…)
- DWDM/GPON networks.
Success stories:
- We built a stealth-mode founding technical team from scratch. This startup is deploying GPU clusters on a Gigawatt scale. Roles including: Lead Network Architect, Head of Infrastructure, AI/ML Advisor, VP of Datacenters, Head of Platforms and Lead SRE, all from FAANG companies and AI CSPs.
- We supported a start-up Colo provider to grow their teams across the EU by 42 staff, from technicians to Directors in just 16 months of working together. Mainly covering critical facility environments.
- We supported one of the world's largest Hosting providers based out of Germany to fill 3 critical roles that were open for 8 months, allowing them to roll out a project to improve network security and increase revenue.
- We worked with one of NL's fastest-growing ISPs in The Hague. They had multiple openings within the operations team. We successfully placed one Senior Network Engineer and a Mid-Level Network Engineer there within 1 month of receiving the role.
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