Summary
Giuseppe Presti is a Project Leader and senior software engineer with over a decade of experience designing, developing, and operating petabyte-scale distributed storage and data management systems at CERN. He leads CERNBox—a cloud sync & share platform serving 15K monthly active users and managing billions of files—and has deep operational experience with mass storage (CASTOR) supporting hundreds of petabytes for physics experiments. Proficient in Python, Go and C++ and versed in SQL, UML, Puppet and ITIL, he blends hands-on engineering with service management and DevOps practices. His background spans research (PhD-level work on peer-to-peer architectures and audio signal processing) and industry consulting, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic system-building. Based in Geneva, he is an early adopter of IoT and blockchain ideas and a long-term contributor to large-scale scientific infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Don Bosco Ranchibile
Ph.D. Computer Science Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo
Italian, English, French