Giovanni Balestrieri
CoFounder & CEO at Vanto Collaborative Robotic Systems
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiovanni Balestrieri is a serial founder and robotics-focused software leader with 11 years of experience building autonomous systems, startups, and community-driven tech initiatives. He currently leads Vanto Collaborative Robotic Systems as CoFounder & CEO while also spearheading Pesco Innovation Hub to revitalize Southern Italy through entrepreneurship and agentic AI. Trained in control engineering at Imperial College London and Tor Vergata, he blends rigorous control theory with hands-on expertise in ROS, Python, Linux, path planning and perception. Past roles range from robotics engineer at Inria to senior navigation engineer at Kingdom Technologies and CTO/ML lead positions where he shipped production-ready recommendation and profiling systems. He has a track record of rapid go-to-market execution—setting up infrastructure and acquiring 40 clients in six months—and candid experience learning from a startup failure. Based in Glasgow, he combines technical depth with community impact, often summarizing his pragmatic hacker ethos as “When there is a shell there is a way.”
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive Education, Business Administration and Management, General at Imperial Business SchoolLycée Chateaubriand de RomeControl Engineering, Control Engineering at Imperial College LondonLaurea Magistrale LM, Control Engineering, Laurea Magistrale LM, Control Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (65)
ai10
verify8
robotics8
snowboy8
declaration8
kinect7
location7
zenoh7
plug7
location-based7
pip6
ros6
chmod6
scikit6
wordpress6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GiovanniBalestrieri/kasuka
Oct 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
GiovanniBalestrieri/autodichiarazione_2.0
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Self-declaration proposition to track positive asymptomatic citizens and verify their location based on the declared path. #Covid-19
Contributions:2 reviews, 137 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years
pythoncitizensverifylocationlocation-based
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