Summary
Francesco Sacco is an embedded software engineer with two decades of hands-on experience designing firmware and hardware for industrial, subsea and consumer systems, currently building subsea interface firmware at Schlumberger. He specializes in C for ARM and legacy architectures, RTOS integration, CI pipelines (Azure DevOps) and cross-disciplinary hardware bring-up—skills honed across roles from automation and home control to oil & gas downhole equipment. A published contributor to Brazil’s Embarcados community, he blends practical field testing and production support with mentoring junior engineers in Agile, global teams. His background in both academic energy engineering and electronics technology gives him a rare mix of system-level thinking and low-level hardware detail. Notably, he has maintained involvement with legacy platforms (8051, ARM7) while evolving CI and RTOS practices for safety- and reliability-critical embedded products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
English as a Second Language, English as a Second Language at Kaplan International English - Canada
Electronics Technician, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Electronics Technician, Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at ETEC Getúlio Vargas
Master’s Degree, Energy Engineering and Electrical Automation, Master’s Degree, Energy Engineering and Electrical Automation at Escola Politécnica da USP
English, Portuguese