Simone Baffelli
Software Engineer at Empa
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Baffelli is a software engineer and research software architect with nine years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and scientific tooling across academia and industry. With a PhD in radar remote sensing from ETH Zurich, he blends rigorous research methods with practical engineering—redesigning data pipelines to triple processing speed and implementing Kalman-filter data assimilation for urban CO2 mapping. At Empa he leads platform and automation initiatives, mentors research teams, and develops Kotlin/Java and Python backends that bridge experimental science and production needs. Previously he applied data engineering and statistical modeling in finance, achieving high-performance fuzzy matching at scale, demonstrating a knack for squeezing performance from complex data stacks. Based in Zurich, he pairs deep domain knowledge in sensing with a pragmatic focus on reproducible, automated software for scientific discovery.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Maturità, Maturità at Liceo Cantonale LuganoDoctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) Radar remote sensing, Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) Radar remote sensing at ETH Zürich
German, English, Italian, French
Github Skills (54)
reproducible-research10
docker10
reproducible-science10
dataflow10
slurm10
groovy10
dsl10
singularity10
nextflow10
pipeline-framework10
aws10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
snakemake9
qt9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
baffelli/covid-2019-measures
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 81 commits, 7 PRs in 16 days
baffelli/pyperator
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:331 commits, 123 pushes, 19 branches in 2 months
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