Summary
Marco Cilloni is a Senior C/C++ developer with 13 years of experience building embedded and low-level systems, currently shipping firmware and system software at ZURU Tech. He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from Università di Bologna and has a strong background in distributed systems, blockchain research, and cloud infra (including OpenStack) from his time as a researcher. Comfortable across C, C++ and Rust, he combines deep UNIX administration know-how—over a decade of GNU/Linux and FreeBSD tinkering—with practical embedded development at RE:Lab. Marco’s work spans the full stack of constrained devices to distributed backends, and he’s known for translating academic research into production-ready solutions. Based in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, he brings a disciplined engineering approach and an appetite for low-level performance and reliability optimizations that are often invisible but critical to product success.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico "Aldo Moro", Reggio Emilia
University of Bologna
Italian, English