Davide Cieri
Staff Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Physics
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Cieri is a Staff Scientist and particle physicist with 11 years of experience building FPGA-based algorithms and end-to-end simulation frameworks for Phase-II upgrades of ATLAS and CMS at CERN. He combines hands-on firmware implementation (VHDL on Xilinx Ultrascale+/Virtex/Kintex) with C++/Python algorithm development and strong DevOps practices (git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions), and has created tooling like Hog to streamline HDL-on-git workflows. As a manager and mentor he has led multiple hardware and physics groups, supervised PhD students, and presented work at international conferences. His background blends rigorous academic training (PhD, University of Bristol) with practical demonstrators for real-time track finding, reflecting a rare mix of research leadership and production-grade firmware engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 with hounors, Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 with hounors at Università di Roma Tor VergataDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics at University of Bristol
Italian, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
fpga6
apollo6
gitlab5
package-control4
gitlab-ci4
gitlab-api4
command-line4
cli4
go3
git3
textmate3
golang3
mcu2
firmware2
particle2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dacieri/cmssw
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 9 months
dacieri/mdttp-cm-proto-mcu
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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