Paul Nilsson
Applications Architect
Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPaul Nilsson is an Applications Architect and Ph.D. physicist with over two decades of experience designing and implementing distributed, high-performance computing systems for major international experiments including ATLAS, ALICE, sPHENIX and EIC. He leads development of the PanDA Pilot at Brookhaven, modernizing global job submission for heterogeneous HPC and supercomputer environments, and brings deep hands-on expertise in C++, Python and system architecture. More recently he has pivoted into AI, building LLM-driven tools, RAG pipelines and MCP-based intelligent agents to accelerate scientific workflows and simulation-driven research. His background spans research software engineering, iOS app development, and large-scale SimGrid simulations—an uncommon blend that enables both low-level performance tuning and high-level agent design. Based in Geneva, he combines academic rigor with production-grade software delivery for data-intensive science.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
El- och telereperatör / Naturvetare, Elektronik, Naturvetenskaplig komplettering, El- och telereperatör / Naturvetare, Elektronik, Naturvetenskaplig komplettering at ÖsterängskolanDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nuclear Physics at Lunds universitetNosabyskolan
Swedish, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
data-management9
storage9
science9
network9
distributed-systems8
rust6
python-client3
client-library3
activemq3
testing3
particle-physics2
stomp2
messaging2
particle2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PalNilsson/pilot3
Sep 2021 - Apr 2025
PanDA Pilot 3
Contributions:21 PRs, 1242 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
pandapilot
PanDAWMS/pilot2
Jan 2017 - Nov 2021
PanDA Pilot 2
Contributions:70 releases, 2 reviews, 3883 commits in 4 years 10 months
pandapilot
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