Giovanni Toffetti
Founder at ZHAW Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGiovanni Toffetti is a founder and senior lecturer with 11 years of professional experience bridging cloud, robotics, and AI research and productization from Winterthur, Switzerland. He combines academic rigor—PhD in Computer Science and a long-standing role at ZHAW—with hands-on research experience from IBM Research and multiple university posts, supervising students and writing project proposals. As founder of Binabik AI he is translating research insights into applied robotics and cloud-native AI solutions. His background includes systems-level teaching and engineering (C programming, databases, web apps) and a track record in cloud-based research dating back to post-doc roles. Known for moving between deep technical work and leadership, he maintains a public portfolio (gtoff.github.io) that surfaces practical projects and tools. Colleagues often note his uncommon ability to pivot between teaching, research management, and startup execution.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of DeustoPh. D. Computer Science, Ph. D. Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (53)
grasp10
bare-metal10
high-availability10
kubernetes-cluster10
aws10
dockerfile10
key-value9
consensus9
kubernetes9
workspace9
distributed-systems9
docker9
storage9
ansible9
database9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
icclab/rosdocked-irlab
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Run our ROS noetic environment including the workspace and projects
Contributions:108 commits, 4 PRs, 92 pushes in 5 years 1 month
graspdockerfilenoeticworkspacedocker
icclab/icclab_grasping_niryo
Feb 2019 - Apr 2024
Scripts, configurations, launch files for grasping with Niryo arms at ICCLab
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
graspingarmslaunch-filesconfigurations
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