Stefano Bianconi
Head Of Hardware Development at SumUp
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Bianconi is a hardware development leader based in Berlin with over 15 years of electronic design experience and a decade in senior roles, currently heading hardware development for SumUp’s next-generation POS products. He specializes in taking products from concept to production—defining system architecture, managing supplier relationships, and creating semi-automated test flows to ensure reliability at scale. His background spans consumer multimedia platforms, mass-market ODM projects, and embedded systems across vendors like Freescale, TI and Broadcom, giving him deep expertise in board design, layout review, and production troubleshooting. Known for blending hands-on electronics debugging with team leadership, he has repeatedly delivered high-volume, cost- and schedule-sensitive products. An engineer who values practical robustness, he often mentors junior staff and shapes cross-disciplinary teams to bring complex hardware into reliable manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Engineering Electronics Networking Electromagnetic Fields Theory, Telecommunications Engineering Electronics Networking Electromagnetic Fields Theory at Università degli Studi di PadovaMaturità Scientifica, Maturità Scientifica at Liceo Scientifico
Italian, English
Github Skills (7)
eagle8
file-format7
3d-models6
collada6
ply5
3d-printing4
3d3
Github contributions (5)
u-blox/Altium-Designer-Library
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Symbols and Footprints for Altium Designer
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 11 months
u-blox/CadSoft-Eagle-Library
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
footprintssymbolseagle
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