$ whoami

  • Marco Meoni, married, 3 awesome kids, far more computers than I care to mention (1st one, still operational, an Olivetti M24 from 1989).
  • MSc and Ph.D in Computer Science, Powerbuilder MVP, software engineer, former BigData researcher at CERN, keen on particle physics.
  • Collection of 3k+ Disney comics, owner of Italian vintage cars, U2 fan, sporty, Valentino Rossi, Zico and Nigel Mansell my myths, Udinese fan.
  • Love travelling, visited 31 countries and more than half of the States in US, Casalguidi my little peaceful beloved HSH though.

ARTICLES AND CONFERENCES

$ awk ‘NR > 2004 && NR <= 2020 {print $1}’ conferences.txt

  • 2018    Dataset Popularity Prediction for Caching of CMS Big Data, Journal of Grid Computing
  • 2017    Popularity-based caching of CMS datasets, PARCO, Bologna, Italy
  • 2017    Exploiting Apache Spark platform for CMS computing analytics, ACAT, Seattle, USA
  • 2016    XrootD popularity on Hadoop clusters, CHEP, San Francisco, USA
  • 2011    iGrid: Interactive Grid, IEEE ESCIENCE, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2011    Beyond batch computing on the WLCG Grid, IEEE/ACM GRID, Lyon, France
  • 2011    Interactivity on the Grid: Limitations and Opportunities, ACM HPDC, San Jose, USA
  • 2010    Exploiting the ALICE HLT for PROOF by scheduling of virtual machines, CHEP, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2009    A Worldwide Parallel ROOT Facility, Supercomputing, Portland, USA
  • 2009    Interactive Parallel Analysis on the ALICE Grid with the PROOF framework, ICCS, Baton Rouge, USA
  • 2009    Current Status of the CERN Analysis Facility, CHEP, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2008    Using IHE profiles for an healthcare DataGRID based on AliEn, EMMIT, Tripoli, Libya
  • 2004    AliEn Web Portal, CHEP, Interlaken, Switzerland

ME IN A NUTSHELL

$ cat marco.cv | 2>&1 | grep -v “I work w/ computers” | tee out.log

  • DB-centric Web/Mobile developer (Powerbuilder, Appeon, Vue.JS, Android).
  • Grid/Cloud computing enthusiast with proficiency in WLCG tools and publications in conferences endorsed by IEEE and ACM. 
  • Hadoop and all around guy. 

Ph.D THESIS

$ grep ‘Mining Predictive Models for Big Data Placement’ phd.txt

  • The research program has been supported by the ICT department of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the National Institute of Nuclear Research (INFN), Pisa. 
  • The thesis work has researched on how to apply machine learning and Big Data techniques on a large set of computing logs provided by the CMS experiment, in order to optimize CPU utilization and job wall time of the distributed computing infrastructure.

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