Cosimo Palazzo
Senior Associate Scientist
Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolCosimo Palazzo is a Senior Associate Scientist and experienced educator based in Apulia, Italy, who blends a strong academic background (PhD in Information Engineering, summa cum laude master’s) with a decade-plus career building software for scientific climate data analysis. He has deep hands-on expertise with NetCDF/Zarr formats, parallel computing, data mining and distributed databases, and a research pedigree in wireless and inter-vehicular networking from roles at the University of Salento and NATO C3 Agency. At CMCC he has progressed from postdoc to senior scientist roles, consistently delivering tooling and integration work that makes large climate datasets more accessible for online analysis. He also teaches Technology at the secondary level, bringing practical software and systems thinking into the classroom—an uncommon bridge between cutting-edge research software and STEM education. Colleagues value his mix of analytical modeling, simulation experience and production-focused programming, which helps translate complex research questions into reliable software.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
elementareMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110, Summa cum Laude, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110, Summa cum Laude at Università degli Studi di LecceIstituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "E. Fermi"Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Engineering, Excellent, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Engineering, Excellent at University of Salento
English
Github Skills (18)
python10
middleware9
command-line-interface9
climate-science9
netcdf9
frontend9
earth-science8
c-libraries8
unidata8
conda7
jupyter-notebook6
ats5
in-memory5
conda-forge5
napalm5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OphidiaBigData/ophidia-analytics-framework
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Core modules and operators of the Ophidia framework
Contributions:2 releases, 1104 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 11 months
pythoncore-modules
OphidiaBigData/ophidia-workflow-catalogue
Jul 2016 - Nov 2025
Catalogue with examples of Ophidia workflows & Jupyter Notebooks for Ophidia
Contributions:7 releases, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
jupyter-notebook
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