Nicolò Giuliani

CS student @ University of Bologna — systems, infra, low-level.

Education & Publications

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

B.Sc. in Computer Science — expected graduation July 2027

  • Relevant coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Languages, Computer Architecture, Combinatorial Optimisation, Probability Calculus and Statistics, Logic for Computer Science. Browse my notes →
  • Thesis: Kairos, a reversible concurrent programming language — PDF

Experience

CINECA — HPC Curricular Intern

Sep 2026 – Oct 2026
  • Project: Infrastructure, Lifecycle Management and Security Hardening for HPC Services via Kubernetes
  • Replicated a production Kubernetes cluster used to orchestrate HPC support services as a digital twin on Cineca's private cloud, using IaC tooling (Ansible) — write-up →
  • Ran infrastructure-level security benchmarks (CIS) on the digital twin and tested lifecycle and backup-recovery procedures

Linux Kernel — netdev

Contributor
  • Fixed a probe failure in the mv88e6xxx DSA driver (two Marvell switch models wrongly assumed to have PTP hardware), reviewed by Andrew Lunn and merged into net.git by netdev maintainer Jakub Kicinski
  • Device-tree bindings and board support for the same hardware applied to mvebu/dt64 by maintainer Gregory Clement (Acked-by Krzysztof Kozlowski, Reviewed-by Andrew Lunn)
  • write-up →

Writing

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Skills

Languages C, C++, Python, Bash
Systems & Infrastructure Linux/BSD, Linux kernel development, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, KVM/QEMU, Proxmox, Ceph, ZFS, systemd, Git, MikroTik RouterOS, CIS security hardening
Theory Structural Operational Semantics, Automata Theory, Formal Language Theory, Linear/Integer Programming, Network Flow Algorithms, Reversible Computing (Janus)
Languages Spoken Italian (native), English (B2), French (A2)

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