Michele Gruppioni
IOS Software Engineer at Bending Spoons
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMichele Gruppioni is an iOS software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building mobile products at Bending Spoons from his base in Bologna. His background mixes consumer mobile apps, R&D at YOOX NET‑A‑PORTER and embedded systems work—he’s implemented machine vision and OCR research and even designed microcontroller hardware early in his career. Michele contributes to open-source IoT tooling, notably adapting Sonoff firmware for Apple HomeKit integration, showing a knack for bridging mobile and embedded domains. He holds a Master’s in Automation Engineering from Università di Bologna and combines a systems-level engineering mindset with hands-on app development to deliver polished, production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
ElementariUniversity of BolognaHigh School , Diploma, Electronics and telecomunications, High School , Diploma, Electronics and telecomunications at Technical Institute Aldini-Valeriani, Electronics and telecomunication
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
firmware10
iot10
embedded10
homekit10
c1110
sys10
esp826610
bash8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Gruppio/Sonoff-Homekit
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Make your Sonoff Switch compatible with Apple Homekit! 🎉
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michele's contributions center around modifying firmware for a Sonoff Basic switch to integrate with Apple HomeKit. They made minor code changes, removed unnecessary files, and implemented a new firmware update with a fixed LED functionality. Further contributions involved adding source code for button functionality and integrating it to the HomeKit setup. Additionally, they updated the flashing script and added new firmware binaries.
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Gruppio/Echolor
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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