Participants
From K to P
Gagik KARAPETYAN INFN, Padova - Italy
  Currently I work in RareNoise project. The goal of the project is to study the statistical properties of very-low loss mechanical oscillators in non equilibrium steady-states. Currently my responsibilities include data acquisition and room temperature experimental setup maintains and cryogenic setup assembling. My programming skills are C++ and NI LabView. Also I'm familiar with Matlab and started to discover ROOT package. My preferred operating system is Windows.
 
Tomas KARASEK CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I work in the IT-PES-PS group and I participate in the implementation and deployment of new cloud infrastructure to an external datacenter. My main tasks are management of internal git hosting service, development and maintenance of puppet modules for general use in the infrastructure, and implementation of runtime instance configuration logic. I mostly deal with python, puppet, git and ruby on RedHat-based operating systems.
 
Nikolaos KASIOUMIS CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I first arrived at CERN in 2009 as a technical student where I completed my MSc thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering working on searching and personalization services for the CERN Document Server software. In 2011 I returned as a fellow working as the software infrastructure work package leader for the European project "BlogForever". The project's objective is to create robust facilities for the preservation, management and dissemination of weblogs. Currently I am a staff member for the Digital Library Services section of the Collaboration and Information Services group in the IT Department working as a software engineer for the development and automation of the ePublishing service at CERN as well as for the open source digital library software suite Invenio. I am an everyday user of Debian Linux and I currently mostly program using Python and related web technologies such as HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript.
 
Wolfgang KIESENHOFER Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna - Austria
  I studied physics at the Vienna University of Technology and did my diploma thesis at the Institute of High Energy Physics were I analyzed test beam data from semiconductor test structures measured at SPS. I am now a PhD student, starting my 3rd year and I'm currently working for the CMS experiment. My primary interest is the search for super symmetry, but I also participated in the muon and the missing energy object groups.  I am currently working on a background estimation technique for SUSY decay channels with a single lepton in the final state. Operating systems I use in my daily work are Linux and OSX, sometimes Windows.  Programming languages I am familiar with are C++, Python and Matlab. I have also extensively used ROOT and RooFit during the last 4 years.
 
Blazej KOLAD CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I have been graduated in 2009 with MSc degree in Physics from Wroclaw University of Technology.  In October 2011 I joined software section of BE/BI department at CERN.  I work on low-level real-time server and expert GUI application for beam instrumentation. The main tools which I am using are C++, FESA framework and Java.  During past few months I was involved in several projects related to the beam profile measurement (Wire Scanner, Fast Wire Scanner, SEM-GRID).
 
Georgios KOLOVENTZOS CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I am currently a fellow at IT-PES-IS. I am working with the Version Control Systems of CERN. In my job I have to maintain 3 clusters of machines. To accomplish this I have expertise in bash, perl and python scripting languages. Moreover as we have some web servers my knowledge of html, css and php came handy for such jobs. As a technical student I have widen my knowledge in the apache web server introducing a new load balancing scheme for our machines. With so many services in order not to lose anything we have also some databases. So we are expertized in SQL in various backends as MySQL, ORACLE and sqlite.  I have a B.Sc in Informatics from the University of Athens.
 
Ji̍ří KUNČAR CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I am a M.Sc. student at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he also got the Bachelor degree in Computer Science. In 2010, I became a student at the Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden and I have recently graduated with a Master degree in Software Engineering there. During my stay at CERN I am part of the ID-CIS department working on Invenio digital library software infrastructure, notably (i) the database configuration manager and the use of SQLAlchemy for DB independence (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle); (ii) help with the migration of Invenio's web framework to Flask/Werkzeug/Jinja platform.
 
Jan Ǻge LAVIK CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I am currently working as a developer and system administrator for the CERN library, focusing on digital library systems such as CERN Document Server and INSPIRE-HEP - the one stop shop for scientific articles in high-energy physics. Also I am involved on the technical implementation and monitoring of the ingestion of content from various sources such as scientific publishers and online repositories. Both systems are built on top of CERN's in-house digital library software Invenio, which is based on the LAMP stack, using Python as the main programming language. In addition to LAMP and Python, I’m familiar with C/C++, Java, MySQL and web technologies such as PHP, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS. I work mostly on the GNU/Linux platform.
 
Claudia LAZZARO INFN, Padova - Italy
  I studied physics at University of Padova obtaining the master degree in 2006; I took the PhD at ETH (Zurich), involved in the OPERA experiment, working on the software to reconstruct the events. I am currently a post-doc at INFN (Padova) involved in the RareNoise project, to develop the software of analysis data. The project is devoted to the study of non-equilibrium fluctuations in macroscopic systems. The experimental data are analysed using software implemented mainly in C++ language, as standalone program, using the ROOT library. I mainly develop software in C++ languages, and in Linux operating systems.
 
Dzmitry MAKATUN Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague – Czech Republic
  Starting from 2011 I am a PhD student at Czech Technical University. My specialization is programming and subject of thesis is “Distributed data processing”. I carry out my research in Nuclear Physics Institute (CZ) in collaboration with BNL (US). The research faces the problem of resource usage optimization by coupling the computational, storage and network resources. The goal is to develop a scalable, automatic, self-adjustable and flexible software environment for data-processing. For this work I use my skills of: Linux, MySQL, C++, OpenMPI, Java and Python. In my free time I do sport and photography.
 
Luca MAZZAFERRO University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Italy
  I am PhD student in University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and an ATLAS collaboration member and author. During my degree thesis I developed a tool, integrated into the LCDS, to manage the Data Quality Assessment analysis for the MDT chambers in ATLAS calibration center. Now for my PhD studies I'm modifying it to manage the ATLAS RPC performance analysis. On the same time I am working with the INFN-Tor Vergata Computing Center supervisor to install and manage the local ATLAS farm in grid. I am familiar with Unix systems, virtualization and cloud tools (kvm, xen, openNebula). I use to program with python, C++ and php. For my analysis I use ROOT/PROOF but also pAthena and pRun.
 
Ramón MEDRANO LLAMAS CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I work at the IT-ES group, in which I am the main developer and coordinator of HammerCloud, the functional testing tool for grid sites of ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This tool submits more than 115,000 grid jobs world-wide daily and has improved the ATLAS analysis reliability by 50%. Also, I'm involved in the HelixNebula project, to develop a cloud computing infrastructure for science. Finally, I'm becoming and ATLAS Computing Manager on Duty.  I finished past year my Research MSc, after obtaining a MSc in Computing in Spain and currently I am also working in my PhD. Before CERN, I have worked at Google. I use, administer and maintain a cluster of 17 machines for HammerCloud, work with shell scripting, Python, SQL, high replication and high performance clusters.
 
Felice PANTALEO CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I am a technical student in PH-SFT group at CERN and MSc student in High Energy Physics at the University of Pisa. I am currently working on the development of a real-time software Level 0 trigger using multicore CPUs, accelerators and high performance networks for the NA62 experiment at CERN.  Since 2010 I have worked with CERN openlab on parallelization of RooFit and on numerical accuracy of Minuit. I have good experience with: C, C++, Python, Perl and bash scripting.  Parallel extensions: OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, TBB, pThreads, MPI.
 
Omar PERA MIRA CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
 

I am a software engineer working in the Computing Facilities group at CERN. Currently working in the Lemon Team, where we develop and support the monitoring framework for the CERN Computer Center. I am involved also in the new Agile Infrastructure project, focused on the development of new monitoring components that fits into the new infrastructure. Before coming to CERN, I did an internship in the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge and the University of Bremen, with protein visualization and semantic web as domain fields, respectively. In the last 2 years, I've been launching Android applications in my free time. Originally from Spain, looking forward to the CSC!

 
Petya PETROVA CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I am in my last year as a bachelor student in ¨Computer Science¨ at Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski¨, Bulgaria. Currently, I am a technical student at CERN and my main project here is to do data migration between two bug-tracking systems. In particular, I have to develop a data importer plugin. So that Savannah project, which has been widely used at CERN until recently, would be replaced by another one - JIRA. In the process of the transition between the two databases I learn a lot about SQL and Java as well as how to handle the occurred problems quickly and efficiently. The experience I gain, while doing the project, helps me a lot in writing my thesis.
 
Ivan PRIETO BARREIRO CERN, Geneva - Switzerland
  I have been working at CERN in the EN-ICE group since 2010 as a software engineer for the UAB project (UNICOS Application Builder). UNICOS is a CERN framework developed to produce control applications for three-layer control systems. UNICOS provides developers with the means to rapidly develop full control or monitoring applications and provides operators with ways to interact with all the items of the process.  The main activities of my position are:- Analysis, design, development and testing of software tools using Java and Jython programming languages and XML technologies.- Give support to the UAB users and developers.  Other tasks performed: - Testing the PLC code generated by the UAB tools. - Programming and testing control script libraries for the SCADA system WinCC OA.