Daniele Cesarini is a results-driven technology leader and Head of AI HPC Architecture with nine years of experience architecting Europe’s next-generation AI, Cloud and HPC landscape and steering over €1B in strategic investments. He has delivered tens of megawatts of compute, exabyte-scale data platforms and flagship systems such as the Leonardo pre‑exascale supercomputer and the IT4LIA AI Factory. Combining a PhD in electronics and an Executive MBA, he bridges rigorous academic research in energy‑efficient, heterogeneous HPC with hands‑on project delivery and stakeholder leadership across EuroHPC and national programmes. A practical contributor to the open-source HPC ecosystem, he has extended key Spack package repositories to broaden supported scientific software, underscoring his focus on reproducible, deployable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Bologna Business School
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniele's primary contributions involve modifying package definitions within the `spack/spack` repository, a flexible package manager. Their work includes adding new versions of software packages like XIOS, updating dependencies, and incorporating new packages such as `fleur`, `cassandra`, `mosquitto`, `cjson`, `BigDFT` suite, and `REGALE`. These changes suggest a focus on expanding the supported software ecosystem within the package manager.
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Daniele Cesarini - Head Of AI HPC Architecture at CINECA