Gabriele Penazzi
R&D Engineer, Sr Staff at Synopsys Inc
Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolGabriele Penazzi is a senior R&D engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in atomistic modeling, quantum transport and scientific software development, currently leading Agile teams at Synopsys to turn cutting‑edge research into product features. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD and postdoctoral work on charge transport and DFTB+ development—with pragmatic expertise in HPC, CI/CD and cross‑language engineering (C++, Python, R). Gabriele has a strong track record of collaborating with application engineers and customers, contributing to scientific publications and awarded grants, and mentoring teams on coding best practices. His background includes building REST APIs for mass spectrometry imaging and long involvement in multiscale/multiphysics C++ platforms, reflecting an unusual blend of device‑level physics and production software craftsmanship. Known for translating medium‑ and long‑term strategy into concrete development plans, he is equally comfortable in the lab, the codebase and in front of technical audiences.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Sensors and Learning Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Sensors and Learning Systems Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English, German, Danish
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Github Skills (10)
density-functional-theory8
quantum-mechanics8
simulation7
simulations7
python-bindings4
routines4
python3
fortran3
numba2
mpi2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gpenazzi/gpenazzi.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
libnegf/libnegf
Nov 2012 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 reviews, 208 commits, 35 PRs in 8 years
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