Dario Pennisi
Direttore Generale at ipTronix
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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RockstarDario Pennisi is a seasoned technology executive and hardware-focused CTO with 12 years of recent experience and a career stretching back to the 1980s across ASIC/FPGA, embedded systems, and consumer TV platforms. As founder and long-time leader of ipTronix he built the company into a primary third-party technical support center for major multimedia vendors and forged key distribution and partner relationships that influenced BOM and product bring-up. He led Arduino’s hardware team to democratize advanced tech and has steered R&D and productization efforts for companies spanning set-top boxes, IPTV, medical and industrial imaging. Hands-on expertise in sensor integration and low-level bring-up is evidenced by contributions to the popular OpenMV camera project, adding board support, sensor cropping and bootloader/I2C tweaks. He blends strategic business development with deep technical fluency in image processing, RTOS and system architecture, often acting as the bridge between silicon vendors and OEMs. Based in Rome, he combines entrepreneurial grit with rare practical experience from MC68000 assembler-era game development to modern embedded imaging systems.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
i2c10
embedded10
server-configuration10
configurations10
system-configuration10
c1110
sys10
system-integration10
hardware10
sensor-fusion10
bootloader8
image-processing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openmv/openmv
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
OpenMV Camera Module
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dario primarily focused on low-level hardware and embedded systems development within the OpenMV Camera Module repository. Their contributions involve modifying board configurations, including clock settings and pin definitions, specifically for the Portenta board. They also added support for new image resolutions and implemented specific hardware features like cropping for the HM-01B0 sensor, indicating a deep understanding of sensor integration and image processing on embedded platforms. Additionally, they made adjustments to the bootloader and I2C configurations, further demonstrating experience in hardware bring-up and system-level software development.
cameraopenmv
vidor-libraries/VidorBitstream
Apr 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:77 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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