Francesco Ruffino is a Principal HPC Specialist Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has worked in HPC for most of the last 25 years in different roles, from professional consultant to pre-sales engineer and product manager. Prior to joining AWS, he worked for NICE, growing the company from a small Italian firm into a global organization that was acquired in 2016 by AWS. Francesco holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from “Università La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy.