Summary
Babacar Diop is an HPC engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems and applied research infrastructure across Africa. Currently at CINERI, he focuses on scaling parallel computing capabilities to support computational research, drawing on hands-on deployment and systems design experience. He previously led platform and open-access journal deployments for Global Africa, connecting researchers and enabling cross-continental collaboration. His background spans IoT testbeds and smart village living labs, where he translated low-cost LoRa networks into practical agricultural and environmental monitoring solutions. As a part-time university instructor in algorithms, distributed systems and machine learning, he blends teaching with practice to keep solutions both theoretically sound and operationally robust. Based in Senegal, he combines an engineer’s attention to systems detail with a track record of turning research collaboration needs into production-ready platforms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis