Lorenzo Villani
Technical Program Manager Prototypes & Testing at Italdesign
Greater Turin Metropolitan Area Italy
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Top SchoolLorenzo Villani is a Technical Program Manager with 17 years of engineering and program leadership experience, currently overseeing prototypes and testing at Italdesign where he scaled validation throughput and cut costs on multimillion-euro Audi programs. Trained as an aerospace engineer and versed in platform engineering, he blends hands-on software fluency—from embedded Android work to contributions in PyInstaller—with data-driven program governance and Agile delivery. He has led large, cross-disciplinary teams (including a 103-person effort that set a human-powered vehicle speed record) and built real-time analytics tooling that accelerated R&D cycles. Known for pragmatic automation and test-infrastructure improvements in notable open-source projects, Lorenzo pairs systems thinking with a knack for translating complex technical constraints into operational improvements.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Science - MS, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (18)
mobile-development10
python10
testing10
plugin-development10
pyinstaller10
java10
javas10
automation10
android10
maven10
automations10
android-sdk9
pyqt9
xpath9
xlib8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pyinstaller/pyinstaller
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo primarily contributed to the internal workings and testing infrastructure of PyInstaller. Their work includes adding support for PyQt5, integrating a command-line utility for pretty-printing TOC files, and adding a hook for the Python Xlib wrapper. They also made crucial changes to the test suite, including adding bytecode encryption tests, improving test exit codes, and implementing features to allow running all tests with crypto enabled. Furthermore, they addressed environment variables related to Qt plugins.
pythonstandrevit-apisetuptoolspython2
simpligility/android-maven-plugin
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Lorenzo primarily contributed to the `RunMojo` functionality of the Android Maven plugin. Their work focused on creating and refining the Mojo responsible for launching the first activity with the `android.intent.action.MAIN` intent filter. The user added the `RunMojo`, made adjustments to the code, and improved the documentation of the plugin. The commits also involve refactoring and improvements like removing trailing whitespace, Java 6 Override annotation compliance, and the ability to pass the `--no-optimize` flag to `dx`.
maven-pluginmavenandroidandroid-applicationapplication-development
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