Nicola Bonelli
Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Ireland Research Center
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Bonelli is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tuscany with a PhD in Computer Science and over 16 years of hands-on experience building high-performance networking and packet-processing systems. His career spans academia and industry—from research at the University of Pisa (PFQ and Blockmon packet capture/monitoring projects) to performance engineering roles at PacketFabric and Huawei Ireland Research Center—focusing on lock-free/wait-free algorithms, multi-threaded architectures, and C++11 systems programming. He has led efforts to port legacy real-time codebases to modern, cross-platform C++ and implemented scalable monitoring and DPI solutions for mobile networks. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he specializes in optimizing network I/O on multi-core, high-speed links and has a track record of shipping open-source tooling used in networking research. A detail that stands out: he teaches advanced C++11 concepts to PhD students, demonstrating both deep technical mastery and an ability to mentor future engineers.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Università di Pisa
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Github Skills (109)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
awgn/speedcore
May 2012 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
awgn/ifshow
Dec 2009 - May 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 7 years 5 months
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