2013
PhD in Fundamental and Applied Physics
Università di Napoli Federico II · Napoli, Italia
Higgs-like resonance searches with ATLAS. Supervisors: Mariagrazia Alviggi and Francesco Conventi.
Work
Research, infrastructure and responsibility
From physics research to daily operations, I take ownership of the systems, decisions and coordination that allow people to do their work.
At INAIT, I bring together infrastructure engineering, DevOps, AI and robotics enablement, and the coordination needed to keep a technology company working. I joined in December 2021 as Senior DevOps Engineer & Corporate Infrastructure Manager and became Lead IT Infrastructure in August 2023. I am responsible for cloud and local infrastructure, automation, developer platforms and everyday IT operations, working closely with scientists, programmers and mathematicians.
My work also covers operational governance, budgets, suppliers, software licences, procurement, contracts and office infrastructure. I translate a technical need into requirements, organise the resources and decisions around it, and follow it through implementation and support. The contribution is practical: researchers can use demanding computing environments, developers can build and deliver software, and colleagues have working tools and clear support. My experience in particle physics and ATLAS systems administration helps me connect the purpose of the work with what it takes to make it possible.
The work behind the rolesProfile
Education
2008
Licenciatura in Physics
Universidad de Los Andes · Mérida, Venezuela
Thesis on electromagnetic momentum in modern physics. Supervisor: Gianfranco Spavieri.
Professional experience
Several roles. One connected career.
I have held research appointments and operational responsibilities at the same time. These roles show both their individual scope and the institutions that formed one shared working context.
December 2021–present
INAIT SA · Switzerland
Senior DevOps Engineer & Corporate Infrastructure Manager · Lead IT Infrastructure
Lead the infrastructure and operational work that help a technology company research, build and deliver.
- Joined in December 2021 as Senior DevOps Engineer & Corporate Infrastructure Manager.
- Lead IT Infrastructure since August 2023.
- Cloud and corporate infrastructure, IT operations, security, procurement and technical support.
- Infrastructure and developer environments for AI and robotics.
- Operational governance, budgets, suppliers, licences and office infrastructure.
2021
LAPP · CNRS · Annecy
CNRS postdoctoral fellow
Scientific computing and open research at the Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules.
- Work with the ESCAPE and ATLAS groups.
- Reproducible analysis, open research tools and technical education.
2016–2021
ATLAS / CERN · Università di Udine · ICTP · INFN
Concurrent research and computing responsibilities
Research appointments and institute partnerships combined with systems responsibility for the ATLAS experiment.
- ATLAS TDAQ system administrator at CERN, 2016–2021.
- Postdoctoral fellow, Physics Department, Università di Udine.
- Research associate, ICTP High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Section.
- Associate, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
2010–2016
Università di Napoli Federico II · INFN · ATLAS / CERN
Doctoral researcher, INFN associate and research fellow
Doctoral research and subsequent work connected Higgs analyses with software and scientific computing.
- PhD in Fundamental and Applied Physics, 2013.
- Co-author of ATLAS’s 2012 Higgs boson discovery paper.
- INFN–CERN associate contract, 2012–2013; INFN association in 2013.
- Research fellowship in Naples, 2013–2016.
May 2008–February 2009
LPNHE · Paris
HELEN Fellow
Ten-month fellowship in the High Energy Physics Latin American–European Network, funded through the European Union’s ALFA programme. I researched ATLAS reconstruction algorithms at LPNHE in Paris.
- Host laboratory then affiliated with UPMC, Paris Diderot and CNRS.
- LPNHE is now associated with Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité and CNRS.
2004–2010
Universidad de Los Andes · Mérida
Lecturer and teaching assistant
Three overlapping teaching appointments across Engineering, Science and Humanities.
- Physics laboratory teaching assistant, June 2004–February 2010.
- Mathematics lecturer, Engineering, March 2009–March 2010.
- Basic mathematics teaching assistant, Humanities, May 2009–March 2010.
Work with me
What I can do for your organisation
I bring more than twenty years of work in physics, computing and technical education. My strength is connecting scientific depth with operational responsibility: understand the problem, build what is needed, and give people the means to use it.
Research and company infrastructure
Designing and running the computing that other people depend on: cloud and on-premise systems, identity and access, automation, reproducible environments, cost control and the policies around them. From a trigger farm at CERN to a start-up’s whole IT estate and a three-machine laboratory in Mérida.
Evidence
The systems behind the workDesigning a New Infrastructure for ATLAS Online Web ServicesMulti-user deployments of ATLAS Open Data
Open data and open knowledge programmes
Turning a dataset, an archive or a body of expertise into something people can actually use: releases, documentation, licences, tools and the onboarding around them. Open science at CERN, health information on Wikipedia, medical heritage in Lausanne.
Evidence
Making ATLAS data usableHealth for All: making knowledge easier to reachBIHM: connecting books and objectsCreative Commons Global Network Council, Executive Committee
Capacity building and technical education
Courses, schools and hands-on material that leave participants with working tools of their own: from the CERN School of Computing to a talk whose exercises run inside the participants’ repositories, and a virtual centre that taught physics across an ocean. More than ten CERN summer students and a handful of thesis students have passed through my supervision.
Evidence
Physics and teaching in MéridaPhysics Without FrontiersTeaching scientific computing in SantiagoA thesis defence across three countries
Programme and network design
Setting up what a distributed community needs to work: calls, roles, calendars, platforms, light governance and a public track record that funders and institutions can read. Hackathons, young-researcher networks and regional strategy processes.
Evidence
CoAfina: questions worth working on togetherThe commons of a young researchers’ networkTransversal computing for Latin American scienceTransversal computing: the empirical case, 2024
Public-interest technology and AI services
Prototypes and proposals that put public models and official sources at the service of people, with the limits stated plainly: what the source establishes, what the model explains, what remains open. Built with privacy and a small budget as design constraints, not afterthoughts.
Evidence
Public AI for every communeData justice at the heart of AI governanceThe Civilian Geopolitical Reality Map600 kits for drawing, writing and learning
How we can work together
Advice
A question, a review or a second opinion on an architecture, a data release or a programme. Short, written, with the reasoning shown.
Programme design
From a brief to a plan: objectives, roles, calendar, platforms, budget lines and how the result will be evaluated and published.
Build and hand over
A prototype, an infrastructure or a publication, documented so that your team can own and maintain it. I provide reproducible workflows, a clear handover and documentation adapted to the team’s working language.
Teaching
Schools, workshops and courses, in person or online, with exercises people can keep. I work in Spanish, English, French and Italian; we agree the teaching language and materials for each group.
Institutions I have worked with or for: LPNHE (HELEN Fellow), CERN and the ATLAS Collaboration, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, INFN and the University of Udine, LAPP (CNRS), Università di Napoli Federico II, Universidad de Los Andes, Creative Commons, Wikimedia CH, RedCLARA and LA-CoNGA Physics, ACFIMAN, INAIT.
Some of the tools I work with
Azure · Linux · Terraform · Kubernetes · GitHub · Python · Bash · C++
Selected experience
Experience in practice
2016–2026Work
The systems behind the work
At INAIT, I connect infrastructure, DevOps, AI and robotics enablement, operational governance and the practical work of keeping a technology company running.
2004–2019Science
Physics and teaching in Mérida
A thesis with Gianfranco Spavieri, three teaching appointments at Universidad de Los Andes and a research collaboration that continued beyond the degree.
2008–2009Science
HELEN Fellowship · LPNHE, Paris
From Mérida to LPNHE in Paris: a ten-month HELEN fellowship, ATLAS reconstruction research and a European–Latin American scientific network.
2016–Community
Physics Without Frontiers
Co-leading ICTP’s work in the Americas: university programmes, research supervision and the relationships that turn students into collaborators.
2020–2023Science
LA-CoNGA physics
Helping build an Erasmus+ collaboration in advanced physics and open education, from programme design to teaching and CoAfina.
2026Work
Public AI for every commune
An open-source guide to life situations in Switzerland, where a public model draws the path and only official sources are allowed to answer.
2026Science
Three small computers, one real experiment
A governed, bilingual remote computing system for cosmic-ray physics in Mérida, Venezuela, built on hardware most people would throw away.
2016–2020Science
Making ATLAS data usable
Real collision data, accessible software, and the work of opening a scientific experiment to learners.
2017–2019Work
BIHM: connecting books and objects
A digital route through medical history, linking the books and objects held by a Lausanne institution.
2026Science
Teaching scientific computing in Santiago
Tools, techniques and software design at the 2026 CERN School of Computing in Latin America.
2026Work
A talk whose exercises people keep
From open data to shared knowledge: computing, automation and AI for research and teaching, for the Instituto de Ingeniería in Venezuela.
A useful conversation starts with the problem.
Tell me what you are trying to build, understand, or improve. We can explore where my experience fits and what a sensible first step would be.
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