Roberto Benfatto
Software Developer at covolunablu.org
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Benfatto is a software developer with 12 years of experience blending low-level systems work, devops, and game development, currently contributing at Ferrari. He grew up reverse-engineering hardware and still brings that curiosity to software—evident in contributions to DOSBox-X where he fixed Unix serial/audio board issues for legacy OPL2/OPL3 support. Roberto runs and automates services for a privacy-focused GNU/Linux community, managing mail/web servers, an Arch repo, and custom Docker tooling. His background includes leading procedural algorithms and Unreal Engine 4 development for CAD/BIM and robotics automation, plus deep C++ debugging and internal git workflow management. He aims to build PC games and eventually start his own company, combining craftsmanship with pragmatic infrastructure and open-source sensibilities.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
threaded10
serial-communication10
unix10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
hyper-threading10
nix10
sys10
multithreading10
dosbox9
embedded9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joncampbell123/dosbox-x
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily focused on fixing and enhancing audio board functionality within the DOSBox-X project. Their commits addressed issues related to serial port communication and audio playback, particularly for OPL2 and OPL3 Duo audio boards on Unix systems. The user's changes involved modifying the `libserial.cpp` file to correct serial port handling and updating code in `opl2board.cpp` and `opl3duoboard.cpp` to implement threading and buffer management for improved audio output. These efforts resulted in bug fixes and improvements to the user experience of DOSBox-X on Unix-based operating systems.
dossdl2dosbox
stengun/arcademus
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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