Alfio Lazzaro
Senior Research Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlfio Lazzaro is a Senior Research Engineer based in Lugano, Switzerland, with 11 years of experience specializing in scientific software, algorithm and software optimization, multi-threading, and parallel programming. He has led high-performance computing projects across academia and industry, including directing the DBCSR sparse linear algebra library at University of Zurich and current research engineering work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His background spans accelerator porting and optimization at Cray and CERN to linear-scaling electronic-structure code development at ETH Zurich, giving him deep expertise in performance-critical compute stacks. Alfio pairs a PhD in Physics with an executive master in ICT Management, a mix that helps him translate complex scientific requirements into production-ready, high-performance code. Notably, his career blends hands-on kernel- and library-level optimization with project leadership in international research collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanExecutive Master in ICT Management, Executive Master in ICT Management, Executive Master in ICT Management, Executive Master in ICT Management at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, Italian, French, germaniche (lingue)
Github Skills (47)
simulation10
row10
quantum-chemistry10
sparse10
matrix10
matrix-multiplication10
sparse-matrix10
mpi10
hpc10
blas10
petsc10
lapack10
cuda10
linear-algebra10
sourceforge9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alazzaro/alazzaro.github.io
Dec 2024 - Oct 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
alazzaro/openmpi_on_ss11
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:59 pushes in 1 month
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