Jacopo De Amicis
HPC System Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Italy
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacopo De Amicis is an HPC System Development Engineer with 8 years of experience bridging thermohydraulics research and production-scale HPC systems. Trained as a nuclear and energy engineer with top honours from Politecnico di Milano, he combines deep CFD expertise (Fortran, C, Python) with practical research software engineering—testing, debugging, versioning and documentation—primarily on Linux. At AWS he contributes to ParallelCluster and Parallel Computing Service, extending Slurm integration and system-level tests, and previously supported flagship supercomputing and EU research projects deploying real-world HPC workloads. He is equally comfortable developing numerical models for boilers and implementing robust cluster configuration and validation, a blend that helps translate complex physics into reliable, scalable infrastructure. Fluent in collaborative, cross-cultural environments, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on DevOps skill to HPC delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Final Mark: 110/110, Master Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Final Mark: 110/110 at Politecnico di MilanoDiploma ASP, Diploma with Merit, Diploma ASP, Diploma with Merit at Alta Scuola Politecnica
Italian, English, German, French
Github Skills (7)
aws10
slurm10
python10
integration-testing10
testing9
chef-solo9
chef-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-parallelcluster
May 2022 - Jan 2023
AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS supported Open Source cluster management tool to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS cloud.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 293 reviews, 46 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacopo primarily contributed to the improvement and extension of integration tests within the AWS ParallelCluster project. Their work involved upgrading the Slurm scheduler to newer versions and adding integration tests for memory-based scheduling, as well as functionality like scontrol reboot. The user also implemented a configuration parameter related to Slurm's memory-based scheduling features, and included validation and parameterization of underlying Chef configurations, showcasing a focus on system-level configuration. Additional contributions included adding validation and integration tests for SchedulableMemory.
awsaws-cloudhpc-cluster
jdeamicis/aws-parallelcluster-node
May 2022 - Nov 2023
aws-parallelcluster-node is the python package installed on the Amazon EC2 instances launched as part of AWS ParallelCluster
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 6 months
amazon-ec2awspython
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