Martin Barisits
Software Engineering Manager at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Barisits is a software engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading large-scale distributed systems, currently heading development and architecture for CERN's Rucio scientific data management platform. He leads a globally distributed team that operates at exabyte scale—Rucio manages over 500 PB for ATLAS and handles more than 12 PB of daily turnover—bringing deep expertise in data-intensive systems, database interactions, and backend engineering. With a PhD-level computer science background from Technische Universität Wien, he combines research rigor with pragmatic system design and long-standing experience in production-grade distributed architectures. An active contributor to the Rucio codebase, he focuses on core backend improvements, replica handling, and test infrastructure that keep mission-critical science workflows reliable. Martin is passionate about algorithms, machine learning, and data science, and is known for turning complex scientific requirements into robust, scalable software solutions. Based in Geneva, he excels at bridging scientific collaboration and engineering delivery across international infrastructures.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyEcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, German, French
Github Skills (2)
python10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Mar 2012 - Jan 2023
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:342 releases, 1214 reviews, 5527 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality, with a focus on enhancing code logic in the core components of the rucio framework. Their contributions included changes to existing methods, improving the handling of file replicas and error scenarios. The commits showcase an understanding of database interactions and the internal workings of the data management system, demonstrating skills applicable to enhancing existing features and contributing to the core backend. The user also worked on adding features and improving the test setup.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
rucio/rucio.github.io
Nov 2017 - Mar 2025
The Rucio public website
Contributions:19 reviews, 77 PRs, 110 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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