Diego Villamaina
Engineer at University of Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDiego Villamaina is an engineer with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research and production software, currently developing backend services, automation and testing in Zurich. He began in ultrafast laser spectroscopy (PhD-level research) and transitioned to building containerized pipelines and web applications for scientific image and sequence analysis at the University of Zurich. Diego has practical expertise in Python, Docker, Postgres and geospatial/raster tools, and has authored and maintained parallelized scientific pipeline tools such as gbids and gc3apps. He has commercial experience building API-integrations and end-to-end tests at Fluence World and delivering cross-platform automation and device management with Ansible and PowerShell. Comfortable working at the intersection of research and engineering, he repeatedly turns complex scientific workflows into reproducible, containerized services. Colleagues value his blend of meticulous scientific thinking and pragmatic software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Photochemistry and Material Science, Master’s Degree Photochemistry and Material Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy at University of Geneva
Italian, English, French, German
Github Skills (79)
python10
ssh10
ansible10
planet9
automation9
pytest9
docker-compose8
network-configuration8
command-line-tool8
integration-testing8
earth8
google-compute-engine8
ansible-container8
uwsgi7
web-application7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ESS-uzh/geoRpro
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
A library to process raster data
Contributions:22 PRs, 60 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 4 months
rasteriowpspythonrastergdal
sparkvilla/guit_Tkinter
Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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