Summary
Andrea Giannini is a hardware engineer with eight years of experience designing and validating electronic systems, currently based in Palo Alto and working at Vorticity while co-founding Exovolar. He has led hardware and digital design efforts from research environments (CERN, ETH Zurich) to startups (Fathom Computing, Exovolar), combining hands-on optoelectronics and digital hardware expertise. As CTO-turned-cofounder he’s comfortable taking concepts from prototype to product, and now balances engineering with venture scouting and community roles. A lifelong learner who values diversity and change, he brings a musician’s discipline to engineering—he credits piano practice with shaping his problem-solving and focus.
8 years of coding experience