Fabio Baruffa
Lead Cloud Architect And Consultant at Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFabio Baruffa is a Lead Cloud Architect and Consultant with a PhD in theoretical physics and over a decade building high-performance and quantum computing solutions across research and industry. He combines deep scientific training with hands-on expertise in HPC, parallel programming, and fast code to help institutions and startups migrate demanding workloads to cloud and hybrid environments. His career spans roles at Max Planck, AWS, and Intel where he led technical consulting for cloud- and quantum-enabled systems and mentored early-stage teams. Based in Garching near Munich, he bridges academic rigor and production engineering to accelerate scientific discovery. Notably, he pairs low-level performance optimization skills with cloud architecture leadership—making him comfortable both inside the kernel of an HPC job and at the strategy table. He also volunteers as a mentor, reflecting a commitment to growing the next generation of cloud and quantum practitioners.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Physics at University of RegensburgMaster's Degree Physics, Master's Degree Physics at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
English, German
Github Skills (6)
cloud-computing9
simulator9
quantum-computing9
high-performance8
code-optimization7
optimization5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fbaru-dev/code-optimization
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
This is a set of tutorial codes which I use to teach code optimization techniques and tools.
Contributions:71 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
techniquesoptimizationteachcode-optimization
fbaru-dev/nbody
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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