Martin Smith, NVIDIA
This session brings back one of the speakers of the Operating Tens of Thousands of GPUs on Hyperscalers: Failure, Firmware, and the Illusion of Capacity talk as an AMA session host. Designed as an informal extension of the presentation, this is an open space to dive deeper into the technical nuances and follow-up questions that didn't fit.
Martin Smith is a Principal Architect for Site Reliability at NVIDIA, where he focuses on DGX Cloud and bridges the gap between engineering teams and the cloud service providers. With more than 20 years of experience in reliability and cloud infrastructure at companies like HashiCorp and Rackspace, he specializes in building scalable, resilient systems and infrastructure automation. Beyond his technical work, Martin is a dedicated mentor, speaker, and activist committed to making the world more awesome through engineering.
author = {Martin Smith},
title = {{AMA} with Martin Smith},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}