In this role, he provides technical consultation in the design of the next generation of HPC clusters and Rack Scale Design solutions to partners and customers. Gabriele is author of several research papers presented at major events focusing HPC storage and open source parallel file system. He is involved in several open source projects including Lustre and has promoted the adoption of open source software and Linux since 2000 when he worked as software engineer at Red Hat. Gabriele received his Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza in 1999.