Simone Orru
Embedded Software Engineer at SECO
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Orru is an Embedded Software Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and shipping C firmware for IoT, automotive ECUs, and high-performance battery management systems. Based in Padua, Italy, he combines real-time systems expertise from a TU Delft MS in Embedded Systems with hands-on product experience at SECO and zepp.solutions. He has contributed to the Zephyr RTOS upstream—adding kernel memory-management features, tracing, and device-tree fixes—demonstrating skill working inside a major open-source RTOS project. His background spans multicore firmware for FMCW automotive radar, Python toolchain automation, and real-world ECU constraints, showing fluency across low-level firmware and higher-level tooling. Known for pragmatic, performance-oriented code, he has a track record of turning research prototypes into deployable embedded systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree Information Engineering at Università degli Studi di PadovaMaster of Science - MS Embedded Systems, Master of Science - MS Embedded Systems at Delft University of Technology
English, Italian
Github Skills (15)
c1710
embedded-language10
memory-management10
rtos10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
tracer9
trace9
debug9
debugging9
dts8
bluetooth-le3
iot3
bluetooth3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 4 PRs, 31 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing and improving core kernel functionalities and system-level tools. Their work includes adding and testing the `k_heap_calloc` function, which is crucial for memory management. Additionally, the user enhanced the build process by applying clang-format for consistent code style, and added tracing functionalities for debugging `k_heap_calloc`. Furthermore, the user modified the device tree to fix an issue related to a die temperature sensor.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
sorru94/astarte-device-sdk-python
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Astarte Device SDK for Python3
Contributions:2 PRs, 1225 pushes, 178 branches in 2 years
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