Antonio Vivace

– I'm a staff member of the core EUROCONTROL team responsible of developing Steerin, the modernization of ESCAPE, the standard European air traffic management real-time Air Traffic Control simulation platform. – Designed and developed the 'Tracker Emulator' component, fetching aircraft and flight data from an upstream service and generating realistic ground tracks, including smoothing and noise reduction using a Kalman filter. – Partecipating in the development of a new audio system for the simulator, powered by LiveKit/Web RTC. Writing requirements, interacting with architects, surveying the old codebase, migrating logic to a new microservices-based architecture. Designed and standardized data schemas for both inter-service payloads and external interfaces. – Designed and developed a 'Developer portal' in ReactJS, exposing documentation, API (OpenAPI), web-sockets (AsyncAPI) specifications from 20 different components. Wrote automating pipelines for crawling, validating, populating, versioning and publishing artifacts from upstream services, enabling them to remain independent. – Design, evaluation, test and improvements of new DevOps and GitOps pipelines, targeting the Azure ecosystem. Partecipating in sprints and retrospectives with external contractors involved in de-risking activities. Reviewing their deliverables and providing technical guidance. – Design container images, Helm Charts and CI/CD pipelines to deploy staging and production instances on Azure Kubernetes Service. – Designed and implemented a RESTful Java Spring backend analytics module to capture detailed usage statistics and performance metrics for audio channels, exposing the API via an event-driven architecture using NATS. – Responsible for packaging, modernising and releasing as Open Source pyBADA, a Python library for aircraft performance modelling, trajectory prediction and optimisation, and visualisation with BADA. Put in place development standards, packaged the library, added unit tests, wrote CI/CD pipelines and designed the new website exposing documentation and user guides. I led the open source launch and I'm now responsible of the maintainance.

– I started and lead the development of a new, open-source, digital long term preservation platform for CERN Digital Memory, following the ISO OAIS specification. – Supervised and managed 6 developers. – Created a Python package for harvesting data from 10 different upstream repositories – Designed CERN SIP, a specification format to archive and trasmit archival packages – Developed the Django backend for orchestrating preservation workflows and integrating with other software pipelines (e.g. Archivematica) – Designed an API surface to expose the platform functionalities and to allow different actors to upload data and trigger actions – Developed a web application in ReactJS, exposing configuration capabilities and the service functionalities to final users – Curated container images and maintained CI/CD pipelines for testing and deploy the infrastructure on OpenShift using Helm charts implementing DevOps and GitOps patterns – Developed integrations with existing services at CERN, such as SSO authentication, monitoring (Sentry) and the CERN Tape Archive. – Participated in the development of InvenioRDM, a digital repository software for Open Data and Access used by institutional and academic organizations in the US and Europe.

– I joined a team of physicists and completely overhauled the user and developer experience on a legacy software suite used to monitor the rates of the L1 and HLT triggers of the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. – Prepared and integrated datasets to develop an Anomaly Detection framework for monitoring the Trigger Rates – Integrated Prometheus alerts on the existing monitoring software stack – Developing a new API service exposing data from the Rate Monitoring tools using Flask – Developed a new UI in Vue.js consuming this API to plot trigger data (aiding trigger shifters and data acquisition experts) – Maintaining and updating the RateMon tools, preparing for the LHC Run 3 operations – Prepared and maintained resources and technical documentation to onboard new PhD students and other contributors – Introduced new DevOps and GitOps processes to contributors. Prepared and shipped CI/CD pipelines to package, test and deploy the software.

– Teaching a coding class (3 weekly hours) in middle school for Girls Code It Better, an Italian project trying to bridge the gender gap in STEM subjects, similar to the after-school clubs organized by Girls Who Code.

– I lead the design and the development of a new, open source software for CoderBot, an educative robot (powered by Blockly) used in primary schools to teach coding and introduce computational thinking to children. Documenting the software and hardware architecture, restructuring the existing stack. I managed and supervised the work of the team (7 students), each one implementing a new macro feature for their thesis. The API surface was rewritten with Flask and Connexion while the new web application was done in Vue.js, exposing new components to allow teachers and students to customise their workspace.

– Lead the full stack development of a RESTful web application: a provisional software about the installation of new wind turbines. Developing ad-hoc tools to support the businesses of the Holding and showcase them to the public. Maintaining and designing Wordpress websites with commercial themes and additional components.

– Development of a full stack web application. Consulting and organising developers in other projects. Setting and teaching about new workflows.