Fabrizio Furano
Staff Member at CERN
Ornex, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFabrizio Furano is a Staff Member and seasoned software engineer with over 21 years designing and implementing high-performance, low-latency data access systems at petabyte scale. At CERN he led the Disk Pool Manager project and core distributed-data tooling used across hundreds of Grid sites, combining deep C++ and UNIX expertise with a strong Win32 background. His work spans research and production, from PhD-level systems research to leading large, globally distributed development teams. He specializes in software architecture, scalable data management, WAN-distributed systems, and performance tuning, with hands-on contributions to projects like DPM, REVA, Xrootd and CVMFS. A practiced educator in software engineering and C++, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to complex, mission-critical infrastructures. Outside software he pairs technical craft with interests in electronics and music, reflecting a maker’s approach to problem solving.
21 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (74)
aix10
golang10
tarball10
application10
storage10
cloud-storage10
synchronization10
distributed-file-system10
gridfs10
file-management9
glusterfs9
libgit29
openstack-swift9
momentum9
flipper8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ffurano/mchf-github
Jan 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 2 months
firmwarebugtrackingmakefileconfiguration-fileseclipse
ffurano/xrootd-fbx4
Apr 2016 - Sep 2024
Fabrizio's Xrootd fork
Contributions:8 PRs, 179 pushes, 32 branches in 8 years 6 months
xrootdminecraft
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