Enrico Usai
Senior Software Developer Engineer HPC at NI SP GmbH
Biddacidru/Villacidro, Sardinia, Italy
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Top SchoolEnrico Usai is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of deep expertise in HPC, cloud and virtualization, currently working on high-performance solutions at NI SP GmbH after senior roles at AWS and NICE. He combines low-level C++/Java engineering with cloud-native Python and DevOps practices, contributing to prominent open-source projects like AWS ParallelCluster and Spack to improve reproducible HPC deployments. His work spans cluster management, Slurm integration, and user-facing tooling (EnginFrame/DCV), with practical fixes that range from CLI robustness to packaging and dependency management. Based in Sardinia, he brings a rare blend of production-grade engineering and research-driven curiosity from a background in electronic engineering and a master’s in cloud computing.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegnere Elettronico Facoltà di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica, Ingegnere Elettronico Facoltà di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica at Università degli Studi di CagliariMaster in alto apprendistato in Cloud Computing e Servizi Software Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Master in alto apprendistato in Cloud Computing e Servizi Software Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (7)
build-tools10
package-management10
python10
scientific-computing9
git8
cli8
documentation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-parallelcluster
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS supported Open Source cluster management tool to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 1834 reviews, 684 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Enrico's contributions primarily focused on improving the codebase's functionality and maintainability. They implemented a new feature to strip leading and trailing spaces from user inputs, enhancing the security of the system. Additionally, they fixed various typos within the documentation, ensuring accuracy and readability. Furthermore, they corrected a bug in the CLI related to setting ASG limits, improving its reliability.
aws-cloudhpc-applicationsclusterscluster-managementhpc-clusters
spack/spack
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Enrico primarily contributed to the `aws-parallelcluster` package within the Spack package manager. Their commits focused on adding and updating versions of the aws-parallelcluster software, including version updates and dependency adjustments. These updates involved modifying the `package.py` file to include new versions, update dependencies and adjust build configurations. Their work directly supports the availability and usability of this HPC tool.
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