Guido Imperiale
Staff Software Engineer at OpenTeams
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGuido Imperiale is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of experience building high-performance, cluster-based systems for terabyte-scale data processing. A Python specialist and maintainer-level contributor to Dask and xarray, he has driven core improvements that make deferred computation and large-array workflows more reliable and efficient. He blends deep performance-oriented programming and Monte Carlo expertise for financial simulation with hands-on industrial software delivery across startups and enterprises. Proven in client-facing consulting and team leadership—having led teams of up to twelve—he moves seamlessly between architecting distributed systems and shipping pragmatic, production-grade code. Notably, his xarray contributions demonstrate an attention to developer ergonomics and robustness when integrating with Dask at scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Degree, Computer Engineering, Degree, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (7)
xray10
dask10
python10
numpy10
xa10
netcdf8
pandas8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pydata/xarray
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Guido primarily focused on enhancing the xarray library by implementing and refining core functionalities related to dask integration and data loading. Their contributions include adding a `.compute()` method for explicitly triggering data loading in dask-backed arrays, addressing pickling behavior with dask arrays, and optimizing various internal data handling mechanisms within the library. These improvements aimed to provide a more robust and user-friendly experience when working with large datasets and deferred computations. Furthermore, the user made minor tweaks and cleaned up dask related tests to enhance the quality of the codebase.
pythonnetcdfnumpydaskarrays
AmphoraInc/xarray_mongodb
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Store xarray objects in mongodb
Contributions:18 commits, 36 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 4 months
xarraymongodb
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