Raffaele Sandrini
Chief Technology Officer at xorlab
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Top SchoolRaffaele Sandrini is a seasoned CTO with 18 years delivering software and technical leadership across finance and ecommerce, currently steering technology strategy and development at xorlab. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from teaching systems programming at ETH Zurich to contributing build and release improvements to the popular open-source glide computer XCSoar—with executive experience as a serial co-founder and head of development. His background includes leading banking and mobile projects at AdNovum and building commerce and marketing platforms as a technology lead, giving him deep domain knowledge in regulated, high-reliability systems. Passionate about trading and algorithmic strategies, he blends quantitative curiosity with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues value his ability to move between low-level build/tooling work and high-level architecture while keeping teams focused on shipping. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, reflecting a strong academic foundation behind his applied leadership.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
English, German
Github Skills (16)
build-tools10
cross-compiling10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-system10
crossbuild10
sys9
embedded9
autotools8
android5
navigationbar4
gliding4
aviation4
navigation-drawer4
navigationview4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
XCSoar/XCSoar
Jul 2015 - Jun 2021
... the open-source glide computer
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Raffaele contributed to the build system by adding build flags to use crosstool-ng. They updated the libpng version and fixed a typo in the build script. Further, they added the HOST_ARCH setting for Neon builds and refactored the kobo build files to utilize this setting for architecture-specific configurations. The user also modified the tracking intervals to be consistent across different tracking providers.
aviationlinuxc-plus-plusandroidwindows-mobile
paloma-middleware/PalomaClientBundle
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Symfony Bundle for the Paloma client API
Contributions:11 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
api-clientapihttp-headerbundlephp
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