Placido Falqueto
CTO at Bestie Bite (Techstars '24)
Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolPlacido Falqueto is a CTO and roboticist with nine years of experience blending AI research, mechatronics, and startup leadership across Italy. He currently leads technical strategy at Bestie Bite (Techstars '24) while also serving as CTO at Ulysses Medical Technology, bringing research-driven product development from PhD-level work at Università di Trento into commercial healthcare and consumer robotics. As co-founder and former CTO of EEGMate he turned academic innovation into an award-winning startup, and his background includes hands-on robotics engineering and even professional photography, reflecting a keen eye for design and practical experimentation. Placido bridges theory and practice—shipping AI software, supervising industrial robot projects, and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams—to move complex robotics and medical devices from prototype to market.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechatronics engineering, 110 out of 110 cum laude, Master's degree, Mechatronics engineering, 110 out of 110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di PadovaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Università di TrentoFirst Prize for the innovative startup project EEGMate, HIT Jury Prize, First Prize for the innovative startup project EEGMate, HIT Jury Prize at CLab TrentoInformation tecnologies, 84 out of 100, Information tecnologies, 84 out of 100 at ITIS Max Planck
Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
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arduino7
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node-red5
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pla10/Shelfino_ROS2
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
ROS2 interface for the mobile robot Shelfino of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento.
Contributions:248 commits, 207 pushes, 37 branches in 5 months
pla10/ros2_ur5_interface
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
A resource hub for simulating and programming the UR5 robotic arm in a ROS 2 Jazzy environment. Complementing the pla10/ros2_ur5_interface Docker image.
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 20 days
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