Luca Passone

General Manager @ FalconViz

About

I am driven by curiosity, technology and difficult challenges. In my current role, my curiosity is being fed by solving technological challenges in the acquisition and processing of geospatial data, with emphasis on photogrammetry and UAVs.

Country

City

Saudi Arabia

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

UAV, Photogrammetry, Software Development, Simulations, Computer Science, Matlab, Linux, Java, Python, Git, Fortran, High Performance Computing, Drones, Parallel Computing, DJI SDK software development

Experience

General Manager

FalconViz

2020-2 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Saudi Arabia

Chief Technology Officer

FalconViz

2014-1 - Present · 12 yrs 9 mos

KAUST Reasearch and Technology Park Headquarters , Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Finding better ways to digitise your world.

High Performance Computing Research Internship

IBM

2012-7 - 2012-8 · 2 mos

United States

Porting and testing high performance code to the Bluegene/Q platform.

High Performance Computing Research Internship

IBM

2010-7 - 2010-8 · 2 mos

T.J. Watson research centre

Worked on optimizing on core performance on BlueGene/P for earthquake rupture simulations. (SeisSol).

I.T. Consultant

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

2008-9 - 2009-7 · 11 mos

Developed tools for the finance department together with extensive Agresso work followed by a testing role on the biggest project primed by Detica in collaboration with the UK police department.

Technical Software Engineer

IBM Hursley Laboratories

2006-7 - 2007-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Physical Science and Engineering

2011 - 2018 · 7 yrs

During my PhD I worked on optimising seismic wave propagation code on supercomputer, and worked on analysing the influence of certain source parameters on the ground shaking levels.