Giulio Benetti
CEO CTO at Benetti Engineering sas
Pianiga, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGiulio Benetti is a seasoned CTO and CEO with 26 years of experience specializing in embedded hardware, firmware and Linux BSPs, leading two engineering firms from Veneto, Italy. He combines hands-on technical expertise—RTOS, bare-metal MCUs and Buildroot-based embedded Linux—with strategic leadership as founder/CTO at Benetti Engineering and CTO at Micronova. His open-source contributions include practical fixes to Buildroot for cross-architecture compatibility and gcc-related build issues, reflecting deep low-level debugging skills not always visible in executive roles. He is comfortable moving between board-level hardware concerns and kernel/bootstrapping software, enabling faster time-to-market for constrained systems. Trained in applied programming at ITIS Severi, he maintains a consultant’s mindset, solving niche build and endianness problems that save projects weeks of integration work.
26 years of coding experience
Diploma, Programmazione informatica, applicazioni specifiche, Diploma, Programmazione informatica, applicazioni specifiche at ITIS Severi
English
Github Skills (32)
bootloader10
microblaze10
gnu-make10
c-language10
buildroot10
ram10
time-management10
build-system10
c1110
makefile10
graphic10
c1710
clock10
device-tree10
dts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
buildroot/buildroot
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Giulio primarily contributed to the Buildroot project by addressing build and compilation issues within various packages. Their work focused on resolving build failures related to gcc bugs, especially on the Microblaze architecture, through the implementation of specific compiler flags. The user also contributed fixes for endianness related issues, ensuring compatibility across different architectures by correctly utilizing the defined macros. Furthermore, the user updated package versions, incorporating new releases and fixing build configurations to reflect the latest upstream changes.
kernelgit-repositorymuslopenflowmanjaro
Benetti-Engineering-sas/libblockdev
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
A library for manipulating block devices.
Contributions:78 pushes, 3 branches, 9 tags in 1 year 9 months
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