Danilo Zanin
High School Teacher at Liceo Cantonale Lugano 2
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDanilo Zanin is a physicist-turned-software engineer and educator based in Lugano with nine years of experience building and automating complex experimental and operational systems. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and has designed, maintained, and synchronized custom UHV and spectroscopy setups while developing data-analysis libraries in Python, MATLAB and LabVIEW. Transitioning to industry, he delivered mission-critical software for life insurance operations and provided customer-facing support, demonstrating an ability to move between deep technical R&D and production-grade application development. Now a high school teacher, he leverages hands-on lab construction and instrumentation experience to make advanced physics accessible, while continuing to apply automation and analysis skills to practical problems. Colleagues describe him as cooperative and resourceful—someone who bridges experimental physics rigor with pragmatic software engineering. Notably, his background includes creating unified interfaces for diverse measurement systems, an uncommon mix of hardware integration and end-to-end software tooling.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Italian, German, English, FrenchGithub contributions (4)
ethz-micro/matlab_nanonis
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 86 commits, 77 pushes in 6 months
ethz-micro/matlab_micro
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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