Miguel Costa
HPC-AI Architect at Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Costa is an HPC-AI architect and physicist with 12 years of experience building, operating and optimizing research computing platforms across academia and national-scale centres. He blends a PhD-level understanding of condensed matter physics with hands-on expertise in cluster procurement, deployment and software build systems, having contributed to prominent open-source projects like EasyBuild and Spack to streamline scientific software packaging and reproducible builds. Miguel has led research computing support teams, introduced multiple generations of HPC infrastructure, and improved CI/PR workflows and container/image handling for complex workloads. Based in Portugal, he is equally comfortable tuning Fortran/C++ applications and automating DevOps pipelines, and his background as a founder and CTO means he pairs technical depth with pragmatic project and stakeholder management. Notably, his contributions often focus on documentation and build-tool integrations that remove barriers for scientists to run and reproduce advanced simulations.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Proficiency English, Certificate of Proficiency English at University of CambridgePhD Physics, PhD Physics at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
git10
restructuredtext10
scite10
python10
scripting10
fortran10
configuration-management10
linux10
hpc10
cicd10
script10
scilab10
sh10
build-tools10
shell10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
A collection of easyconfig files that describe which software to build using which build options with EasyBuild.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:466 reviews, 1207 commits, 1632 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Miguel's commits involve modifying shell scripts and configuration files related to the FDTD Solutions software and EasyBuild configurations. Their work focused on fixing paths and paths in PBS templates, removing or adjusting arguments passed to existing shell scripts. These changes indicate a contribution to streamlining the execution environment for specific scientific software, which is relevant to HPC and scientific computing.
pythondescribecpplinuxscientific-software
easybuilders/easybuild
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
EasyBuild - building software with ease
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 reviews, 98 commits, 88 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the documentation of the `easybuilders/easybuild` repository, focusing on user guides and integration instructions. Their work included updating release notes, adding documentation for new features like the `--include-easyblocks-from-pr` option, and clarifying usage of git configuration. They also corrected markdown formatting and added policies around closing pull requests.
pythoncppwindowslinuxscientific-software
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