Summary
Michele Tartara is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader at Google with 15 years of experience building distributed file systems and virtual machine infrastructure, where he co-led the creation of a second-generation filesystem and serves as Domain Tech Lead. A hands-on engineer who primarily writes C++ and Python, he brings deep compiler and VM expertise from a PhD focused on code transformation and machine learning techniques for compilers, and has contributed compiler backends including ARM code generation. His background spans production and research—Ganeti cluster management, a semantic search engine he designed from scratch, contributions to open-source CMSes, and early work on multiagent systems for power networks. Based in Viareggio, Italy, Michele pairs systems-level curiosity (electronics, OSes, AI) with practical delivery and an unusual academic footnote: an Erdös number of 3.
15 years of coding experience
English, Italian, German