Summary
Federico Cinelli is a Senior Manufacturing Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and testing flight hardware, from SpaceX Crew Dragon operations to current work on a LEO constellation at Airbus U.S. Space & Defense. He couples deep mechanical and automotive diagnostics expertise with software and embedded-systems skills—Python, C/C++, Bash, Linux system work and automation—to design test frameworks, EGSE, and production flows. Promoted through technical and leadership roles, he has led test manufacturing and production teams while remaining a practitioner who writes scripts and firmware to solve shop-floor problems. His background running a mobile motorsports shop and publishing candid industry writing gives him a practical, customer-focused perspective and a knack for rugged, maintainable solutions. Holding degrees in computer software engineering and an MBA in engineering/industrial management, he blends technical craft with operational and program-level insight.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Engineering/Industrial Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Engineering/Industrial Management at Southern New Hampshire University
Associate's degree, Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
English, Italian