Summary
Pierre Neyron is a seasoned research engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale testbeds and infrastructures for high-performance computing, distributed systems, cloud and networking. Based at CNRS's Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, he has led development teams and now directs the national SLICES-FR technical program, coordinating 20 engineers to build and maintain production-grade research platforms. His career blends hands-on architecture and software development—from prototypes to mature production services—on projects such as Grid'5000 and SLICES, and includes industry experience in performance engineering at Yahoo!. He is known for turning academic research requirements into robust, scalable operational systems and for expertise in benchmarking, hardware/software qualification and dynamic resource orchestration. A pragmatic tinkerer, he helped commercialize an academic cluster-on-demand product (ComputeMode) and has consistently focused on making experimental infrastructures reliable and reusable across the national research community.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Math Sup/Spé, lycée La Martinière Momplaisir, Lyon
Engineer, Computer Network & Systems, Engineer, Computer Network & Systems at TELECOM Nancy
Baccalauréat S, mention Bien, Mathematics, Baccalauréat S, mention Bien, Mathematics at Lycée l'Oiselet