Nicolo Magini
HPC Cloud Specialist at Leonardo
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolo Magini is an HPC Cloud Specialist with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed computing systems for scientific research, blending a PhD in Physics with deep hands-on engineering. He has led development and operations for mission-critical data and workload management at CERN and Fermilab—driving services that managed hundreds of petabytes across global grid and cloud infrastructures. At Leonardo he now focuses on HPC/cloud integration, continuing a career that spans staff, research, and engineering roles across top research institutions. An active back-end contributor to the Rucio scientific data management project, he has implemented protocol-level improvements (xrootd, gfal) and robustness features for high-volume transfers. Known for turning experimental physics requirements into reliable production software, he balances low-level protocol work with system-level architecture and team coordination. Based in Genoa, he brings rare domain expertise at the intersection of scientific computing, data management, and cloud/HPC operations.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (5)
storage10
distributed-systems10
python10
data-management10
networking8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 17 PRs, 43 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolo contributed to the Rucio data management system by implementing features and fixing bugs related to client-side functionality and data transfer protocols. Their work includes adding authentication options for the xrootd protocol, introducing a transfer timeout option for uploads and downloads, and enhancing the gfal protocol for file transfers. They also addressed file transfer issues and propagated various options within the download client to download protocols.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
nikmagini/pilot
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Pilot
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
pilot
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