Michele Tartara is a Software Engineer at Google, where he works as a core Ganeti developer since October 2012. He has a PhD in Information Technology (Computer Science) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and was a visiting PhD student at MIT for a semester, working on machine learning applied to compilers. He was a speaker at various academic conferences and workshops, including ICOOOLPS, DFT and HiPEAC, and has multiple years of experience giving lectures as a teaching assistant in academia.