Patrick Valsecchi
Embedded Software Engineer at Destinus
Penthalaz, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPatrick Valsecchi is an experienced embedded software engineer with 18 years building high-performance, cross-platform systems in C++ and C, complemented by fluency in Java, Python, Erlang and multiple scripting languages. He has driven R&D and technical leadership in drone firmware, Android GCS apps, CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Terraform) and prefers the agility of small companies under 200 employees. Patrick brings deep networking and security expertise—having implemented protocols like LLDP, DHCP, SNMP and SSL—and a track record of performance and memory optimizations, including camera firmware and real-time embedded workloads. He is an active open-source contributor and full-stack developer on the popular Subsurface dive log project, showing attention to both UI fixes and backend data integrity. Known as the “go-to” problem solver, he also led process modernizations around Git, CI and QA at scale. Based in Penthalaz, Switzerland, he pairs systems-level rigor with broad language/tool fluency to deliver reliable, production-grade embedded and infrastructure software.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Engineer at HEIG-VDMaster, Master at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneCFC, CFC at École Technique - École de Métiers Lausanne
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
qt10
cprogramming-language10
user-interface9
configuration-management8
debug8
debugging8
c117
c177
adb6
hibernate6
android6
hql6
apache-camel6
android-service6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
subsurface/subsurface
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to multiple areas of the Subsurface divelog program, demonstrating full-stack capabilities. Their work included fixing UI elements in the Qt interface, specifically addressing weight adding in the UI and table header heights. They also improved the backend by importing salinity and atmospheric pressure data, and fixing unitialized variables. Furthermore, the user implemented features like configurable vertical speed units and added the `.ssrf` file extension to the open dialog.
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
pvalsecc/odi
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 65 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
database-interfaceerlangdatabaseorientdb
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