Alexandru Săvulescu
Project Leader at CERN
Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Săvulescu is a project leader and systems-focused software engineer with seven years of hands-on experience across HPC, SCADA, and embedded systems at institutions like CERN and EPFL. He combines deep C/C++ expertise on Linux/macOS/Windows/VxWorks with practical skills in Python, Oracle PL/SQL, Kafka and big-data tooling to deliver performant, secure, and maintainable software for large-scale scientific and industrial deployments. At EPFL he optimized and refactored scientific codes for CPU/GPU architectures and led NEURON simulator release and CI/CD work, including restoring macOS testing pipelines and modernizing build infrastructure. His CERN roles span SCADA driver development, real-time data streaming integration, and project leadership for HSE REMUS, with a track record of mentoring junior engineers and managing software releases. Comfortable bridging research and operations, he also brings security-minded practices from a prior Secure Development lead role handling PCI‑DSS and threat modelling. Based in Meyrin (Geneva), he pairs rigorous engineering with pragmatic deployment experience in high-stakes, production environments.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science IT, Master of Science IT at University of CraiovaNational College "Ionita Asan"
English, French, Romanian, Italian
Github Skills (14)
simulations10
simulation10
cluster-computing10
high-performance10
parallel-computing10
devops10
scientific-computing10
cicd10
accelerated-computing10
python9
mpi9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
bash7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
neuronsimulator/nrn
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
NEURON Simulator
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 777 reviews, 54 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the NEURON Simulator project by addressing testing infrastructure and code maintainability. They re-enabled testing for Azure macOS, addressing build issues and ensuring the testing pipeline's functionality. Additionally, they refactored and documented code related to data exchange mechanisms within the simulation, renaming and modifying related code. Moreover, the user removed Python 3.7 support and made changes to various aspects of the project's build and CI/CD, indicating a focus on infrastructure and build process efficiency.
spiking-neural-networksneurosciencesimulation-frameworkhigh-performance-computingcomputational-neuroscience
alexsavulescu/nrn
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
NEURON Simulator
Contributions:19 PRs, 84 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
simulatorneuron-simulatorsimulationneuron
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