Adrian Sevcenco
Scientific Researcher 3 at Institute of Space Science - ISS (ROMANIA)
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAdrian Sevcenco is a seasoned high-energy physics researcher and software engineer with over a decade of experience developing and maintaining complex C/C++ analysis frameworks for the ALICE experiment, alongside advanced Python tooling. He combines deep domain expertise in QCD/QGP and jet physics with pragmatic software craftsmanship—refactoring legacy code, modernizing builds, and improving code quality across high-profile projects like AliRoot, AliPhysics and XRootD. Equally comfortable as a developer and systems administrator, he manages Linux/HPC clusters, GRID services and job schedulers (Torque, Slurm, HTCondor) and has site-level security/admin experience for distributed scientific infrastructure. His work often focuses on making large-scale analysis pipelines more robust and reproducible—evidenced by build-system and ROOT6 compatibility fixes—and he brings a rare blend of hands-on experimental physics and production-grade DevOps. Based in Bucharest, he holds a PhD in Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics and continues to bridge research and engineering in data-intensive science.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Physics, Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, PhD, Physics, Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics at Universitatea din București / University of BucharestColegiul National "I.L. Caragiale"
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Github Skills (31)
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cmake10
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physics10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
The XRootD central repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the build process of the XRootD project. Their contributions included modifying build configurations to only build libraries, indicating a focus on modularity and optimization. Additionally, the user replaced deprecated C header files with their C++ equivalents, showing an effort to modernize the codebase. The user also made changes to various source files by replacing `stdio.h`, `inttypes.h`, `stdint.h`, `string.h`, `stdlib.h`, `time.h`, and `stdarg.h` with their C++ counterparts to improve code consistency and maintainability.
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alisw/AliPhysics
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
ALICE Analysis Repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 14 PRs, 104 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on converting existing functions to static methods within the `AliTaskCDBconnect`, `AliMultSelectionTask`, and `AddTaskCentrality` classes, improving code structure. They also introduced early validity checks and floating-point exception checks within `AliAnalysisTaskEmcalJetCDF`. Additional changes involved fixing ROOT6 compilation issues, and converting `AddTaskPhysicsSelection` and `AddTaskRhoNew` to static methods. The updates reflect code refactoring and improvements to existing analysis tasks.
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