Giuseppe Penone
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Kenwood Limited
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Penone is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 15 years' experience building robust firmware and Linux-based systems for ARM SoCs and microcontrollers across consumer, marine, and industrial domains. He combines modern C/C++, Python and embedded GUI expertise (Embedded Wizard, GTK, Qt) with hands-on experience in FreeRTOS, Yocto, Yocto-built Linux daemons and low-level drivers, having shipped production code on IMX8, AM335x, Beaglebone, Toradex and various STM32 and PIC platforms. At Raymarine and Kenwood he delivered complex real-time features—motor control, sensor fusion for stabilization, CAN/NMEA stacks and RPMsg inter-core comms—while at Solomon and Atmel he built CI pipelines, device drivers and automated test infrastructures. An active open-source author, he maintains the widely used CherryTree note manager and has pushed usability improvements such as richer table editing and keyboard shortcuts. He also brings system administration and DevOps experience (CentOS/Ubuntu, Jenkins, Nexus, Subversion/Git) and a knack for cross-domain troubleshooting that bridges firmware, middleware and user interfaces. Trained as an electronics and telecommunications engineer at Politecnico di Milano, he excels at turning low-level constraints into reliable, testable features.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Telecommunications, 100/100, Engineer's Degree, Electronics and Telecommunications, 100/100 at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, German
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Github Skills (15)
gtkmm10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
tabs-management10
tab-management10
shortcuts9
keyboard-shortcuts9
ubuntu6
jenkins6
windows6
user-interface6
qt6
crc6
syslog6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
giuspen/cherrytree
Nov 2010 - Jan 2023
cherrytree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 14 reviews, 2896 commits in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Giuseppe implemented features and fixed bugs related to table management within the CherryTree application. The code modifications focused on enhancing the table creation and manipulation functionalities, including functionalities for entering and removing data in table cells. Additionally, they introduced keyboard shortcuts for managing table columns and rows. These changes showcase a focus on improving the table-related features within the application.
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flathub/net.giuspen.cherrytree
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 38 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 months
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