Diego Ciangottini got his PhD in physics (2015) in Perugia. He is working as INFN Computing Researcher developing innovative workflow and data management solutions for large scale science and it is in this context that he is working on understanding the impact of a distributed cache layer in a future WLCG data lake. Diego started his activity in scientific computing in the context of software development for the CMS Workload and Data Management (WM/DM) at LHC. He is currently involved, as a member of the ESCAPE EU project, in the investigation and development of an infrastructure dedicated to the scientific data analysis in a data-lake scenario that is based on dynamic and automated deployments on cloud resources.