Hi, I am Enrique Garcia, a Software engineer with 10 years of experience accross DevOps & cloud, technical project management, data engineer, software development and data science.
I hold a MSc in Astrophysics and a BSc in Physics.
Below is a summary of my CV.
Working Experience
CERN - Geneva.
10/2022 – 09/2025
Fellow on Scientific Computing.
IT-LCG-TC (Technical Coordination) Group
- Coordinator of the ESCAPE Virtual Research Environment (VRE) platform; maintenance and development of a community-driven analysis facility that allows end-to-end scientific analyses.
Via a unique login (ESCAPE INDIGO IAM) the VRE links interactive Notebooks (JupyterHub) with a scientific data management service (RUCIO framework) and enables the offloading of workflows to a platform focused on scientific reproducibility (REANA).
The platform is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster (OpenStack), and automatised via Terraform, Helm, Flux and CI/CD pipelines.
- Led the consolidation of ESCAPE (EU H2020 project) partner’s activities across data management and scientific analysis platforms.
- Technical liaison for CERN data management and data access activities within the InterTwin EU project.
- Rucio developer and deputy of the Rucio JupyterLab extension component.
- Contributor to the integration of the VRE into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) EU Node during the build-up phases of the EOSC Federation.
- Contributor to the standarisation of the scientific data management infrastructure for small and medium CERN experiments, and member of the IT Analysis Facility working group.
- Supervisior of 3 CERN Summer Student projects: REANA & Zenodo extensions and their OAuth2.0 implementation.
Skills & Technologies used: DevOps & Cloud (Kubernetes, Helm, K9s, Flux, Docker, Singularity, GitHub actions, GitLab CI/CD, OpenStack, ArgoCD), Software development & Data Analysis (Python, Bash scripting, git, CVMFS, REST APIs), Project Management (Agile, Scrum), Scientific Data Management Frameworks (Rucio, FTS3, gfal2), Computing Platforms (Reana, JupyterHub), HPC and distributed computing (HTCondor), AunthN/Z (INDIGO IAM, OAuth2.0, OIDC), Monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus), Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL) and Web technologies (NodeJS, JavaScript).
LAPP/CNRS-IN2P3 - Annecy.
07/2019 – 09/2022
Data and Software Engineer.
CTA/HESS High energy gamma-ray astrophysics group.
- Developer of data analysis pipelines for the CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) and CTA/LST collaborations. Contributor to the integration of the Real Time Analysis pipeline into the CTA/ACADA framework.
- Joint responsibility for the technical implementation of the ESCAPE (EU H2020 project) Open-Source Scientific and Service Repository (OSSR) work-package.
- Tutor in the ESCAPE 2021 and 2022 summer schools & LST 2022 LST data analysis school.
- Teaching assistantship at Annecy IUT (Université Savoie-Mont Blanc), teaching hands-on exercises (TPs) during 3 semesters for electrical engineering and industrial computing students.
- Shift operator for the LST-1 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (1 month onsite and 1 year remote).
Skills & Technologies used: Software development and Data analysis (Python, Bash scripting, Docker, git, GitHub actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and HPC and distributed computing (Slurm).
Altran-Tesella - Madrid.
10/2018 – 06/2019
Junior Data Scientist / Consultant.
WCC Madrid.
- Provision of tailored guidance and support for digital transformation within Spanish companies.
- Implementation of classical Machine Learning (ML) models according to client needs.
Skills & Technologies used: Software development and Data analysis (Python, Bash scripting, GitHub Actions) and Classical Machine Learning.
Relevant publications
- Data discovery, analysis and reproducibility in Virtual Research Environments, CHEP 2024, arXiv.
- A Pilot Analysis Facility at CERN, Architecture, Implementation and First Evaluation, CHEP 2024, Contribution link.
- The Virtual Research Environment: A multi-science analysis platform, CHEP 2023, EPJ Web of Conferences.
- The Science Alert Generation system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, ICRC 2021, arXiv.
- Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, ICRC 2023, arXiv.