Fernando Pereira
Senior Software Engineer HPC at Signaloid
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Pereira is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in High Performance Computing with 11+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems in Python, C++ and Rust. He has led redesigns and implementations at scale—most notably an out-of-core brain connectivity filter handling 50+TB with Spark and a material activation cluster for CERN’s Radiation Protection group—proving expertise across MPI, OpenMP and distributed data frameworks. Comfortable across system engineering, Linux DevOps and database/storage administration, he blends low-level performance optimization with pragmatic infrastructure design. An active contributor to the HighFive C++ HDF5 library, he improves POSIX-compliance and robustness in widely used scientific tooling. Based in Geneva, he pairs academic rigor (PhD) with hands‑on leadership in multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoMaster of Science (MSc) Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
file-handling10
file-processing10
hdf10
c-language10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
fileio10
unit-testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
BlueBrain/HighFive
Mar 2017 - May 2022
HighFive - Header-only C++ HDF5 interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 49 commits, 121 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the HighFive library, a C++ interface for HDF5. Their work involved implementing missing functionalities like copy assignment for H5Object, and fixing truncation modes in file creation. They also improved open modes/flags for file operations, adding tests to validate the changes. These changes improved the library's stability and POSIX compliance.
cpphdf
BlueBrain/MVDTool
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
Parser and command line tool for MVD file format
Contributions:4 releases, 18 reviews, 53 commits in 4 years 7 months
command-line-toolparser
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