Andrea works as Data Solutions Manager at the EGI Foundation assisting user communities in the integration of scientific applications and platforms with the EGI services and pilots and validating solutions against user requirements. He is currently Service Owner of the EGI data services and WP leader in the EU projects EUHubs4data and EGI-ACE.
He worked 11 years at CERN and, as part of the storage team, he developed storage and data transfer solutions and participated to different EU projects (D4Science I and II, iMarine, XDC). Andrea has been previously employed at ISTI-CNR in Italy as software developer. He holds a Master degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa (Italy).