Carlos Reis

Carlos Reis is a member of the Scientific Computing team of the Italian synchrotron Elettra and its free electron laser FERMI. He is an electrical engineering graduate of the Federal University of Technology (Brazil) and holds a Master's degree from the The School of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP), Portugal. Carlos is participating in Work Package 5. which is focused on real-time management of ESS data, and more specifically on Task 5.3: Software to aggregate and make available the neutron event data and sample meta-data.

- As soon as I finished my engineering degree in Brazil and my Master’s in Portugal, July this year I applied for an interesting position at the Italian synchrotron Elettra. The job's main task is the participation in the BrightnESS project. I am involved in Work Package 5, which is focused on advanced data aggregation. At the moment, I am following the developments of a very powerful framework named Kafka that is going to be used in BrightnESS. In parallel, I am keeping up with the activities of the Scientific Computing team of Elettra, which also provides its services to the free electron laser FERMI.

This job marks the beginning of my career as a professional software engineer, thus being involved in an international project of this size is really fantastic. I interact with so many people from different institutes, which all work enthusiastically towards the same goal. I also like that I get the opportunity to learn new things and self-develop by facing challenges.

From my point of view, the key challenge in WP5 is that it needs to forecast the data production of the facility and provide a future-proof data aggregation solution. To do so, the team needs to cooperate closely in an efficient and timely manner.

As a host to a synchrotron and a free electron laser, Elettra will bring in experience and at the same time will acquire new knowledge through its involvement in this project. This knowledge can be applied to future planned upgrades like that of Elettra 2.0.