Alessandro Gatti
Dottorato
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Gatti is a researcher and university tutor at the University of Pavia with 12 years of professional experience bridging applied motor activity research and hands-on technical development. Currently pursuing a master's and engaged in a doctoral program, his work focuses on physical activity trends, childhood obesity prevention, and novel strategies to increase exercise adherence in children. Based at LAMA, he combines rigorous academic study of secular fitness trends with practical interventions and teaching. Unusually for a public health researcher, he also brings deep embedded-systems and open-source engineering experience—contributing to projects like MicroPython and Bus Pirate firmware—which reflects a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset and strong low-level technical skills. This hybrid background gives him a rare ability to design evidence-based interventions informed by both data-driven research and systems-level engineering thinking.
12 years of coding experience
Laurea magistrale in SCIENZE E TECNICHE DELLE ATTIVITÀ MOTORIE PREVENTIVE E ADATTATE, Scienze motorie, Laurea magistrale in SCIENZE E TECNICHE DELLE ATTIVITÀ MOTORIE PREVENTIVE E ADATTATE, Scienze motorie at Università degli Studi di Pavia
Italian, English
Github Skills (47)
assembly10
c-language10
dis10
package-management10
hardware-interface10
plugin-development10
firmware10
risc-v10
analyse10
c-programming10
intellij-idea10
java10
plugin10
ruby10
i2c10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Community developed firmware for Bus Pirate version 3 and 4
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 32 PRs, 226 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed significantly to the firmware of the Bus Pirate, a tool for hardware interaction and debugging. Their work involved refining the I2C write-then-read functionality, optimizing bitbang operations, and adding support for OpenOCD, a JTAG debugging tool. Additionally, they modified and refactored the PIC programming module, demonstrating a focus on low-level hardware control and firmware development.
firmware
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 43 commits, 38 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro contributed to the Ghidra reverse engineering framework, primarily focusing on processor specifications. Their work involved modifying 6502 processor specifications, including implementing the BRK opcode, handling interrupt vectors, and improving flag handling. The user also worked on addressing string representation issues in the data modeling framework, improving the user interface.
ghidrareverse-engineeringsresoftware-analysisdisassembler
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