Matteo Barbera
Software Engineer I at Booking.com
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMatteo Barbera is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building service-to-service authentication and customer support infrastructure at Booking.com. He holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft, combining rigorous control-systems and CFD knowledge with practical software delivery. Matteo has contributed to core numerical methods in the well-known SU2 open-source CFD suite, adding transport models and viscous Jacobian calculations—an unusual blend of high-performance scientific computing and production backend engineering. Based in Leiden, he brings experience from academic MAV labs and aerospace startups, translating simulation-grade precision into robust backend systems. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful design and a data-driven approach informed by his aerospace roots.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, Italian, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
fluid-dynamics10
cfengine10
c-language10
cpp10
cfc10
physics10
cprogramming-language10
numerical-methods10
cfml10
cplus10
open-source9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
su2code/SU2
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
Contributions summary:Matteo primarily contributed to the implementation of transport models and viscous Jacobian calculations within the SU2 CFD simulation framework. These changes included the addition of a thermal conductivity class, the definition of viscosity and thermal conductivity models, and the creation of viscous 2D Jacobian calculations. The contributions involved modifying existing header and source files, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the fluid dynamics modeling capabilities of the software. These changes impacted the core numerical methods.
physicsmultiphysics-simulationpythoncfdsnl-applications
matteopini/zTurbo
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 29 days
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