Career Profile

I am passionate about science, specifically physics and computer science. Familiar with agile development practices, good knowledge of the development life-cycle. Strong analytical and debugging skills. Familiar with the principles of object-oriented design.

Experiences

Fixed-term position as Professor

2013 - 2018
University of Cagliari

Temporary contract to teach Physics and Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.

R&D Engineer

2011 - 2013
Incenteev

I was in charge of developing the front-end part of a web application, which helps companies to organize their business challenges among employees in a simple and effective way.

Senior Software Engineer

2008 - 2011
CERN, Geneve

Member of the CMS Database core project. Responsible for providing web services, taking part at the compilation of the requirements, as well as at the design and the development of different tools and services.

Software Engineer

2001 - 2007
INFN, Bari
  • In charge to develop and run experiments in High Energy Physics (HEP) and Grid Computing. As to my activity in HEP, I worked in the ”Compact Muon Solenoid” experiment. As to my activity in Grid Computing, I contributed to the development of a tool to monitor the resources of grid computing ”GridICE”. This tool was used to monitor the resources and the applications in the grid environment and to help detecting faulty situations, contract violations and user-defined events.
  • I had the task of maintaining and monitoring the “Bari Tier-2 Computing Center” performance in order to support the overall needs of Physics Experiments. I participated to the software analyses by developing and using some software tools to analyze millions of real and simulated event data. I developed and studied a Simulation Model of Grid environment, using a software system called Ptolemy II (a set of Java packages supporting heterogeneous modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent systems).

Projects

PASO - A web-based Parser for Solidity language Analysis
3D-Indoor-Navigation - A 3D indoor navigation application using signal strength triangulation and smartphone sensors, such as the 3-axis accelerometer and the gyroscope.
XPrag - Development of an application to boost the process of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and writing the results of a PsychoPy experiment on metaphor comprehension.

Publications

I published several papers, ten of which are talks presented at International Conferences and collected in the Proceedings. For the full record of my scientific publications, please refer to the High-Energy Physics Literature Database.

  • The Influence Factors on Ethereum Transaction Fees
  • G. Antonio Pierro, Henrique Rocha
    WETSEB, 2019
  • Fast access to the CMS detector condition data employing HTML5 technologies
  • G. Antonio Pierro et al.
    Journal of Physics Conference Series

    Skills & Proficiency

    JavaScript & Node.js

    Python

    Python

    React

    Angular

    Ruby on Rails

    Sketch & Photoshop