Paolo Margara
Senior HPC Engineer at NVIDIA
Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolPaolo Margara is a Senior HPC Engineer with 15 years of experience designing, deploying and operating large-scale HPC and virtualization environments for research and enterprise, currently at NVIDIA. He combines deep Unix/Linux expertise (especially CentOS, RHEL, Debian and Solaris) with hands-on skills in cluster schedulers (SLURM, OGE), Bright Cluster Manager, Ansible automation, GitLab CI/CD and storage/virtualization stacks (oVirt, GlusterFS, KVM). He has led HPC facility operations for organizations of ~10^4 users, integrating authentication (LDAP/AD/Samba), monitoring (Nagios, Ganglia), backup and installation systems while supporting parallel application engineering. Paolo also bridges traditional sysadmin and developer worlds with proficiency in C/C++, Java, Python, shell scripting and web languages, and a history of teaching IT and web development topics. Notably, he has experience bringing Hadoop/Cloudera and cloud IaaS into HPC workflows, demonstrating a knack for integrating data-platform tooling into compute-focused infrastructures. Based in Piedmont, Italy, he pairs decades of operational stability with automation-first practices that accelerate researcher productivity.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Maturità scientifica Scienze, Maturità scientifica Scienze at Liceo ScientificoMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (51)
python10
automation10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
ssh10
pattern-recognition9
network-configuration9
linux9
configurations9
macos8
microscopy8
scientific-computing8
regularization8
nvidia8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmargara/ansible
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 month
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
pmargara/spack
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 days
compilersplatformspackage-managerconfigurationsmultiple-versions
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