Francesco Zardi
Lead R&D Engineer at Ansys
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Zardi is a Lead R&D Engineer based in Munich with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industrial product development in radar architectures and electromagnetic diagnostics. He holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from Università di Trento and progressed from doctoral research to senior R&D roles at Ansys, where he now leads technical innovation. His background spans embedded hardware/software, web development, and advanced signal processing, enabling him to translate complex electromagnetic theory into practical engineering solutions. An active engineer in open-source, he contributed backend refactors to the Rust audio library rodio, demonstrating attention to API migration and sustainable maintenance. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who pairs deep domain knowledge with pragmatic coding and system-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information and Communication Technologies, Ph.D., Information and Communication Technologies at Università di TrentoLaurea triennale, Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Laurea triennale, Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni at Università degli Studi di Trento
Github Skills (4)
audio10
rust10
iterable9
iterator9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RustAudio/rodio
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Rust audio playback library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on updating and refactoring the `rodio` library to align with breaking changes in the `cpal` crate, version 0.7. This involved modifying code to accommodate changes in the `cpal` API, including renaming structs, fields, and methods. Furthermore, the user renamed `samples_rate.rs` to `sample_rate.rs`, updated comments, and renamed `UnknownTypeBuffer` to `UnknownTypeOutputBuffer`, and refactored code to use `StreamData` enum.
audio-playbackrustaudio-playback-libraryaudio
frazar/globalgamejam_2018
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 128 commits, 6 pushes in 12 days
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