few of us are formally trained in CS. some of us are good. others are not. my understanding is that the computer engineers at CERN are mostly tasked with IT wo

few of us are formally trained in CS. some of us are good. others are not. my understanding is that the computer engineers at CERN are mostly tasked with IT work, the rest (including DAQ software/firmware, network code, distributed+realtime data processing, etc) is made by the physicists.