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Placido Fernandez Declara is a computing engineer focused on high-performance computing, frameworks and software engineering. During his PhD at the LHCb experiment he developed and improved tracking algorithms for many- and multi-core architectures; he worked on developing the Allen framework with focus on GPU and vectorized algorithms. He received his PhD from University Carlos III of Madrid. Before his Doctoral studies at CERN, he worked on aerospace and high-speed rail industry as a software engineer. He joined EP-SFT to work on software frameworks for future experiments, focusing on CLIC, FCC and SCTau.