Davide Tacchella
Principal Support, Field Engineer at Versity Software
Novazzano, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Tacchella is a seasoned support field engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in HPC systems, currently at Hewlett Packard Enterprise after five years at Cray and a long tenure managing HPC colocation at CSCS. He specializes in installing and troubleshooting large-scale Linux clusters and supercomputing platforms (Cray Shasta/EX, XC30/40) with expertise in interconnects (Slingshot, InfiniBand, Omni-Path, Aries) and storage stacks including Lustre, Ceph, VSM, GPFS and SAM-FS-like solutions. Comfortable across distributions from Slackware to RHEL/SLES, he combines strong C systems programming knowledge (sockets, IPC, threads) with practical skills deploying GPU and Xeon Phi compute nodes. Based in Val Mara, Ticino, he brings a rare mix of field engineering, system administration and archival/storage experience that makes him effective both onsite and remotely. An early adopter who experiments with hardware and software at home, he’s known for solving complex integration challenges in production HPC environments.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at STS - MannoHigh School, High School at SCC Bellinzona
Github Skills (5)
filesystem10
networking2
python2
firmware2
hpc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tack0974/flexlm-proxy
Sep 2025 - Sep 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
cea-hpc/robinhood
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Robinhood Policy Engine : a versatile tool to monitor filesystem contents and schedule actions on filesystem entries.
Contributions:10 commits, 7 comments, 7 issues in 2 years 5 months
filesystem
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