Jay Schmidt

Senior Technical Product and Project Leader

About Me

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I’m a tech leader who thrives on turning customer needs into valuable, real-world solutions – delivering results now and in the long run.

  • Project Management
  • Product Management
  • Product Evangelism
  • Solutions Architecture
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Mentoring

Accomplishments


Latest Post

Aug 1, 2025

Running Slurm and Flux on Oxide: Dual HPC Schedulers in Your Own Rack

If you work in high-performance computing (HPC), you already know SLURM. It’s the industry-standard job scheduler used at supercomputing centers and labs around the world. But what if you could bring that same workload orchestration to your own datacenter, in minutes, on your own hardware? And what if you could also deploy the next-generation Flux scheduler alongside it? This post walks through how we built oxide-slurm, a complete Infrastructure as Code solution that deploys both SLURM and Flux clusters on an Oxide rack with full automation. Read more

All Posts

2025

  • Aug 1, 2025 - Running Slurm and Flux on Oxide: Dual HPC Schedulers in Your Own Rack
  • Jul 15, 2025 - PXE Booting on Oxide
  • Jun 12, 2025 - Printed on 24 lb. Paper
  • Jun 10, 2025 - Everything Is Political: Embrace It
  • May 23, 2025 - ‘This Is Just How We Do Things Now’: The Quiet Collapse of Standards
  • May 13, 2025 - Find a New Band
  • Feb 21, 2025 - The Fence We Keep Ignoring
  • 2024

  • Dec 23, 2024 - The Parable of the Slow-Boiled Frog
  • Aug 13, 2024 - Managing Kubernetes Contexts with kubectx
  • Apr 18, 2024 - Mirroring Github to Gitlab…Without Premium
  • Apr 15, 2024 - Of NGINX and Pianos
  • Feb 7, 2024 - Cleaner Dockerfiles with HEREDOC
  • Jan 22, 2024 - Adding Trivy to Harbor
  • Jan 7, 2024 - Setting up Harbor as a Local Docker Registry
  • 2023

  • Sep 10, 2023 - Installing the Official NGINX OSS via Ansible Playbook
  • Aug 7, 2023 - Installing the Official NGINX OSS Package via Script
  • Aug 1, 2023 - Breaking Down Silos
  • Jul 14, 2023 - Proxmox LXC and Terraform
  • Jul 13, 2023 - Setting Up Devboxen With Ansible
  • Jul 5, 2023 - Proxmox VMs and Terraform
  • Jun 25, 2023 - Building Proxmox Templates via Script
  • Jun 22, 2023 - Convergent and Divergent Thinking
  • Jun 14, 2023 - Systems and the Cobra Effect
  • Jun 13, 2023 - Umpires
  • Jun 12, 2023 - Situational Awareness
  • Jun 9, 2023 - Back Online

  • Contact

    Always happy to connect and talk about technology, leadership, and where they intersect. See the contact buttons above to connect with me on social media or send me an email. If you’re interested, you can download my resume here. Cheers!

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