Andrea Bocci
Applied Physicist at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Andrea Bocci is an applied physicist with 13 years of hands-on experience at CERN, specializing in high-performance algorithm development and deployment for the CMS experiment's High Level Trigger. He has led coordination and integration of complex trigger systems and refactored GPU- and CPU-focused pixel-tracking code to improve performance and maintainability. His open-source contributions include backend automation for CMS workflows and targeted optimizations in the widely used CMS Offline Software, reflecting a blend of physics insight and production-grade software engineering. Based in Geneva, he combines academic rigor (PhD in Physics) with operational leadership across commissioning, validation and large-scale deployment—often working at the intersection of heterogeneous computing and detector-scale data processing.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Università degli Studi di Firenze
French, Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
cuda10
configuration-management10
algorithms10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
python10
high-energy-physics9
git8
heterogeneous8
version-control8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/cmssw
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
CMS Offline Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Implementer
Back-end Developer & Algorithm ImplementerContributions:2716 reviews, 1784 commits, 1223 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrea's commits primarily involve refactoring and optimizing low-level pixel tracking code within the CMS Offline Software project. Their work included cleaning up GPU- and non-GPU-related pixel tracking code, building files, dropping obsolete classes and renaming and moving definitions within the pixel-tracking kernel. This work demonstrates a focus on performance optimization and algorithm refinement within a physics software framework. The changes suggest the user worked on optimizing core algorithms for high-energy physics analysis.
cmshepcerncms-experimentc-plus-plus
cms-sw/cms-bot
Oct 2014 - Sep 2022
A few scripts to automate approval / testing process
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 18 commits, 23 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the `cms-bot` repository by modifying configuration files, specifically `categories.py` and `categories_map.py`. These changes involved adding maintainers, updating category definitions, and adding new packages related to heterogeneous computing and Alpaka integration. The commits also include clean-up tasks, suggesting an effort to maintain code quality and project organization.
testing
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