Michelangelo Setaro
Staff Software Engineer Product Owner - Autonomous Driving at Stellantis
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMichelangelo Setaro is a Staff Software Engineer and Product Owner in Autonomous Driving with 11 years of experience building perception and sensor fusion systems at Stellantis. He blends robotics, computer vision, and AI expertise with hands-on product leadership, having led perception fusion teams and driven architecture from research to production. A co-founder of Automata and former Educational Director for a Robotics & ML master’s program, he pairs startup grit with a commitment to teaching and curriculum design. His background spans R&D roles and leadership at YAPE and Alascom, giving him practical systems-integration experience across vehicle-scale robotics. Trained in Automation Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and Robot System Engineering (University of Southern Denmark), he brings a strong academic foundation to applied autonomy challenges. Colleagues describe him as driven by leaving a small technological footprint—favoring pragmatic, reusable solutions over flashy one-offs.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Robot System Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Robot System Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark
Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
sensor8
simultaneous7
localization7
robotics7
robot6
slam6
configurations5
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mksetaro/spotmicro
Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
Yet another spot micro project
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
automata-org/iot-device-simulator
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
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