Summary
Daniele Costarella is an Infotainment Platforms Domain Leader with 18 years of experience designing and delivering embedded systems for automotive and transportation markets. He leads 30+ engineers at Italdesign, owning BSP, operating systems and hypervisor strategy while driving stability, power management and OTA update features for complex infotainment and telematics products. His hands-on background spans Linux kernel driver development, real-time RTOS work, hardware design and EN50128-compliant V&V—skills honed on projects from vehicle diagnostics to multi-camera 3D scanners. A pragmatic manager who still codes, he combines Agile team leadership with deep low-level technical ownership and regular customer-facing collaboration. He co-founded OpenMakersItaly and maintains a practical, real-world approach to engineering that balances innovation with deployable, testable solutions. Based in Turin, he is as comfortable defining system architecture as prototyping custom hardware and energy-harvesting sensors.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Master's degree, Master's degree at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
English, Italian