Francesco Abbate
Development Engineer at ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
Biel/Bienne, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFrancesco Abbate is a development engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience in thin film metrology, ellipsometry and reflectometry, currently applying his skills at ETA SA in Switzerland. He has led metrology teams at STMicroelectronics, partnering with process integration to deliver robust R&D and production solutions, define SPC and gauge R&R tests, and contribute to run-to-run process control. A physicist by training with strong grounding in statistics and mathematics, he leverages C, C++, Python and JavaScript to build analysis tools and automation—authoring a C/C++ ellipsometry analysis package and contributing to the lite-xl editor (Meson build, AGG font rendering). Colleagues know him as a collaborative problem-solver who blends experimental metrology expertise with pragmatic software development to close the loop between measurement and process. He’s equally at home debugging low-level rendering issues as designing metrology applications for advanced technology nodes.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Università degli Studi di Palermo
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (11)
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text-editor9
build-system9
code-editor9
mesonbuild9
editors9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lite-xl/lite-xl
May 2020 - Oct 2022
A lightweight text editor written in Lua
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 69 reviews, 1003 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Francesco contributed to the lightweight text editor by adding and configuring the Meson build system for the project. They also worked on implementing font rendering, including the integration of the AGG library for rendering and working on the handling of subpixel rendering on the LCD. Additionally, the user fixed issues related to Y coordinate orientation and corrected the functionality of the menu command.
luaeditortext-editorclite-xl
franko/luajit-lang-toolkit
Feb 2014 - Aug 2020
A Lua bytecode compiler written in Lua itself for didactic purposes or for new language implementations
Contributions:59 commits, 11 PRs, 45 pushes in 6 years 7 months
luaimplementationslanguage-implementationsbytecode-compilerbytecode
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