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.
Core Technical Focus Areas
- Neoclouds - GPU cloud providers building and operating large-scale AI compute
- GPUaaS - GPU-as-a-service platforms, marketplaces, and bare metal providers
- AI Labs - frontier and foundation model labs scaling training and inference infrastructure
- AI Data Center Operators - developers and operators of high-density, AI-ready data centers
Tech Stack
- GPU and HPC Compute - NVIDIA H100/H200/B200/GB200, AMD Instinct, GPU cluster deployments, CUDA, NCCL, MIG
- HPC Networking - InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA, Spectrum-X, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP
- Storage - Lustre, WEKA, VAST Data, DDN, Ceph
- Orchestration and Scheduling - Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, Run:ai
- Platform, SRE and DevOps - Linux, Go, Python, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana
- Inference and MLOps - vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, MLOps, LLMOps
- Data Center Infrastructure - liquid cooling (DLC), power distribution (HV, MV, LV), BMS, DCIM, commissioning
Track Record
- We built the foundational technical team for a startup GPU-as-a-service provider, hiring 12 engineers across site reliability, software engineering, and lead architecture.
- As a strategic partner to a leading neocloud, we've made 30 global hires across HPC solution architecture, GPU cluster architecture, site reliability, network engineering, and data center engineering.
- We built out a stealth neocloud from scratch, hiring their founding engineers across platform engineering, fleet operations, and site reliability engineering.
Whether you're hiring or looking for your next role in AI infrastructure, I'm always happy to chat. Feel free to connect with me here, or send me an email.