Davide Bortolami is a senior hardware and electronics engineer with 10 years’ experience delivering end-to-end products across medical, industrial and scientific markets, currently owning electronics, firmware, acoustics and thermal design at Smartbox — now the world’s second-largest AAC company. He blends hands-on PCB and embedded firmware work with product and project leadership, having designed flagship devices like the Grid Pad series and driven hardware that helped produce 30%+ YoY growth. A pragmatic tinkerer and entrepreneur, he runs Fermium LTD for experimental projects and previously co-founded Fermium LABS, which placed advanced teaching apparatuses into top universities using innovative manufacturing techniques. His open-source contributions span DevOps, Electron front-ends and ICS/SCADA tooling, reflecting a breadth from deployment automation to UI and security-focused back-end work. Based in Bristol and trained in both electronics and economics, he brings a rare mix of systems-level engineering, manufacturing pragmatism and commercial sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Economia, Economia at Università degli Studi di Padova
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:48 commits, 11 PRs, 80 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily worked on the front-end components and structure of the JupyterLab desktop application. Their contributions included setting the minimum window size, using absolute paths for bash, and merging branches, which involved modifications to the application's window and state management. The commits demonstrate a focus on the Electron application's core functionality and UI elements. The user also contributed to updating the extension setup.
Docker images for production and development setups of the Frappe framework and ERPNext
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 21 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on optimizing the Docker images and configurations for the Frappe and ERPNext framework. They refactored asset naming conventions, improved image build processes, and addressed issues related to dependencies and image build failures. The user also implemented enhancements to the `docker-entrypoint.sh` scripts and integrated the waiting time of frappe-python and frappe-socketio to be available. These changes aimed to streamline the deployment and enhance the overall stability of the Docker-based development and production environments.
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Davide Bortolami - Senior Hardware Engineer at Fermium LTD