Federico Vanzati
Principal Hardware And Manufacturing Engineer at tiko Energy Solutions
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFederico Vanzati is a principal hardware and manufacturing engineer with 14 years of experience delivering end-to-end hardware for electronic devices and IoT systems. Based in the Zurich metropolitan area, Switzerland, he currently leads hardware and manufacturing engineering at tiko Energy Solutions, driving design reviews, metrology certification, EMS partnerships, and the automation of test equipment for IoT heating control devices with energy metering. He previously built and industrialized automated test pipelines and led firmware and hardware validation across multiple roles, including senior hardware design at tiko and hands-on embedded work at Arduino. Federico's open-source footprint includes contributions to the Arduino Ethernet library, the official Arduino AVR core, and bootloader-related improvements, underscoring a strong blend of firmware, hardware, and developer ecosystem skills. He holds a Bachelor's in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and has a track record of turning complex product cycles into repeatable, scalable manufacturing processes. He combines manufacturing excellence with a hands-on firmware mindset to deliver reliable, scalable IoT hardware.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (21)
bootloader10
c-language10
controller10
c-programming10
microcontroller10
ethernet10
avr10
iot10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
scripting9
networking9
iot-devkit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/ArduinoCore-avr
Apr 2012 - Jun 2015
The Official Arduino AVR core
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:41 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily contributed to the Arduino AVR core, making modifications to the interrupt handling and SD card initialization within the context of the Arduino Yun platform. Their work involved debugging and updating configurations for WiFi shield firmware, including scripts for upgrading the firmware. They also addressed typos and errors in example sketches and added a new datalogger example.
avratmegaarduino
arduino-libraries/Ethernet
Feb 2013 - Oct 2014
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily contributed to the Arduino Ethernet library. Their work included fixing typos and making minor edits to example sketches for web servers and clients, ensuring proper function and documentation. They also updated examples to use DNS for connecting to NTP servers. Furthermore, the user modified the library by updating to a new library format.
arduino-libraryethernetarduino
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