QNIB Solutions

QNIB Solutions (early on called "QNIB Inc") derives from the first project Christian did during his B.Sc. report, an InfiniBand monitoring suite. For the sake of the report it was named "OpenIBPM: Open Source InfiniBand Performance Monitoring". Afterwards Christian renamed it to match his last name (Kniep): "QNIB: Qualified Networking with InfiniBand". Since then QNIB became a pet project's theme...

Christian Kniep

He started at the dawn of the Euro (2002) as a generic System Administrator, installing desktop and server systems running MacOS (9/X), Windows and Linux. Since then Christian iterated through support positions, mostly in an automotive R&D context. He maintained end user applications, virtual reality systems (functional/aesthetic), in-house infrastructure and shifted towards HPC cluster environments. At the latest non-R&D position Christian was in charge of an InfiniBand network with a couple of thousand nodes.

In 2013 he moved to Paris to work as an R&D Engineer in the HPC section of Bull SAS. His job (and passion) was to help shaping a Log and Performance Management solution that will withstand the node increase introduced by the next generation of supercomputers. At the end of 2014 Christian moved back to Germany to pursue his passions in a more unconstrained fashion. After a stint at a local-commerce company he switched to Playstation Now in mid-2015 to help containerize their stacks. Two years in Christian changed to work as a TAM for Docker Inc taking care of EMEA accounts in a technical advisory role.

After the business side of Docker Inc was sold, Christian became a "Senior Specialist Solution Architect for EC2 Spot" at AWS in 2019 and became the first Senior Developer Advocate for HPC&Batch within the HPC product team of AWS. In 2022 Christian left AWS to once more pursue his passion project MetaHub (blog posts).

Recent Roles

In 2023 Christian did a tech due diligence of an AI startup's container and Kubernetes strategy for Earlybird Venture Capital, and took on a freelance engagement at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (2023–2025), extending traditional storage with MinIO on Kubernetes, consolidating asset management to JIRA Assets, and consulting on containers in a research environment.

In mid-2024 Christian returned to AWS as an HPC Developer Advocate (Jul 2024–Jan 2025), helping push HPC and bioinformatics workload integration into AWS Batch with Checkpoint/Restore capabilities.

Since January 2025 Christian has been at MemVerge as a Principal Architect, first on contract integrating MemVerge's products into HPC and AI/ML workflows in the cloud, and from December 2025 as a full-time Principal Architect focused on making MemMachine the best AI Memory platform — through customer engagements, speaking, and advocacy.

As AI is rapidly consuming what used to be traditional HPC topics, Christian's focus has naturally evolved: the intersection of containers, large-scale compute, and AI infrastructure is where the most interesting problems live today.