CV

HPC & Cloud Specialist at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich. Physics background, Julia enthusiast.

Experience

HPC & Cloud SpecialistOct 2022 – present

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)Garching bei München, DE

Administered and maintained 5+ clusters of Rocky and Ubuntu virtual machines on the LRZ OpenStack Compute Cloud, provisioning scalable environments for teaching and research.
Automated infrastructure deployment and configuration management with Ansible, Terraform and Magic Castle.
Managed Kubernetes clusters (RKE/RKE2 with Docker/containerd as container runtime) via Rancher Fleet for CI/CD.
Set up Apache2, ufw and a Caddy reverse proxy, with automated SSL certificates via ACME and Certbot.
Configured custom Jupyter IDE containers integrated with XFS and NFS for persistent user storage.
Maintained 2 Slurm clusters, overseeing software-stack provisioning via Spack, EESSI and Conda environments.
Applied Julia’s KernelAbstractions.jl for backend-agnostic GPU offloading in GaPSE.jl.
Worked with High-Performance Computing paradigms (OpenMP, MPI) and hardware architectures (e.g. ccNUMA domains).
Troubleshot network configurations with netcat, Wireshark and tcptraceroute.
Main LRZ instructor for the course Introduction to Julia (Jun 2026).
Supported dozens of training courses hosted on these clusters, with 10 to 70 participants each.

Master’s Degree in Physics · 110/110 cum laudeSept 2019 – July 2022

University of MilanMilan, IT

Thesis: The Galaxy Number Counts in General Relativity: implications for Primordial Non-Gaussianities — developed the Julia code GaPSE.jl.
Relevant coursework: implemented ray-tracing software for photorealistic image generation.
Data analysis: Bayesian inference and Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods in Python with the emcee package.

Bachelor’s Degree in Physics · 110/110 cum laudeSept 2016 – Dec 2019

University of MilanMilan, IT

Thesis: Evaluation of the Two-Point Correlation Function in cosmological simulations — computed astrophysical metrics in C++ leveraging STL containers.

Italian — native · English — fluent (C1) · German — intermediate (B1/B2)

Publications and talks are on the Publications page.

Prefer the original one-page layout? Here it is — click the preview to open it full size in a new tab, or download the PDF.