Manuele Simi
Principal Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManuele Simi is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on software development and 13+ years in senior roles, currently shaping resilient systems at Liberty Mutual. He specializes in distributed infrastructure, cloud orchestration and bioinformatics platforms, having built on-the-fly Oracle Grid Engine clusters and published applications for DNAnexus. A longtime Core Java practitioner and polyglot developer, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Nextflow and elasticluster, improving Azure and batch/cloud integrations. Beyond coding, he teaches non-programmers—training over 180 biologists and clinicians—and mentors engineers while bridging technical and IT leadership. Practical, infrastructure-first thinking and a taste for composable languages and DSLs drive his work more than any single technology trend.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Github Skills (25)
docker10
cloud-computing10
python10
cloud-infrastructure10
workflow-engine10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
pipeline-framework10
azure-batch10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
devops10
clustering10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nextflow-io/nextflow
Aug 2015 - Jun 2022
A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 21 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manuele primarily contributed to the configuration and improvement of the Azure Batch executor within the Nextflow framework. Their work involved integrating support for features like container registries and user account execution, alongside enhancements for error reporting. They also focused on improving documentation related to AWS Batch, encompassing security policies and the setup process. Furthermore, they enhanced the build process by addressing docker timeout issues.
singularity-containersbioinformaticsawsdataflowslurm
elasticluster/elasticluster
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Create clusters of VMs on the cloud and configure them with Ansible.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 30 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Manuele's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Azure cloud provider within the elasticluster project. They added functionality to manage Azure resources, including boot disk size configuration and managed disk usage. The user also addressed bug fixes related to resource group extraction and improved the robustness of the Azure integration by correcting naming conventions and improving error messages for invalid names.
gcppythonclustersconfigureslurm
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