Javier Picorel
Research Manager (Corporate Research)
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJavier Picorel is a research-driven engineering leader with 10+ years building storage, cloud and near-data processing solutions for large-scale services and AI workloads. He leads Huawei’s Future Computer Fabrics team in Zurich and has steered cloud storage, vector DB and RAG/AI-memory efforts across Huawei’s Munich and global R&D, including a five-year joint lab with EPFL. Trained as a PhD computer architect at EPFL, he combines deep systems research (SSD/NDP, decomposable infrastructure) with pragmatic engineering to deliver cost-efficient cloud racks and superpods for generative and agentic AI. Notably, he bridges academic collaboration and industrial deployment, turning novel architecture ideas into production-capable cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (BSs + MSc) Computer Engineering, Diploma (BSs + MSc) Computer Engineering at Universidad de ZaragozaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Architecture at EPFL
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
benchmarking10
cloud-services10
cloud-computing10
data-center10
latency9
benchmark8
reflect7
apache4
defaults3
computer-architecture2
simulator2
simulation2
python1
architecture1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
javpicorel/memory_tool
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
CloudSuite-EPFL/WebSearch
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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