Federico Sacerdoti is a member of DESRES' Systems team. Prior to joining DESRES, Federico was a member of the Cluster Development group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he contributed to the popular Rocks scientific cluster distribution. While there, he also worked on the Ganglia monitoring system and the KeLP parallel message-passing libraries. He earned an M.S. in computer science from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.S. in computer engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Federico enjoys skiing and attending indie rock shows.