Stefano De Rossi
Founder, CEO at DRS Software
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStefano De Rossi is a founder and CEO with 13+ years of technical leadership, known for building Leaning Technologies into a world-leading provider of WebAssembly-based tooling that helps enterprises and governments modernise legacy Java and Flash assets without full rewrites. He also runs DRS Software, delivering high-performance web and porting services driven by deep expertise in C++, Java and WebAssembly. His background spans academic robotics — including postdoctoral and engineering roles at Harvard and the Wyss Institute — where he led human-subject testing and IP efforts for soft exosuits, contributing to over 40 publications and 15 patents. Comfortable moving between research and productisation, he has helped secure over $20M in competitive grants and translates complex, multidisciplinary problems into practical, enterprise-grade solutions. Based in the Greater Leeds Area, he combines rigorous academic pedigree with entrepreneurial grit and a track record of shipping mission-critical software at scale.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biorobotics, PhD, Biorobotics at Scuola Superiore 'Sant' Anna' di Studi Universitari e di PerfezionamentoExchange Student, Robotics, Exchange Student, Robotics at Waseda UniversityPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Wearable Robotics for Gait Assistance and Augmentation, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wearable Robotics for Gait Assistance and Augmentation at Harvard UniversityMSc, Automation/Control Engineering, MSc, Automation/Control Engineering at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
cheerp10
jvm10
jnlp10
oracle-forms10
typescript10
xterm-js10
java10
applet10
oracle10
compiler10
webassembly10
cpp10
lwip10
jit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leaningtech/cheerpj-applet-runner
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
CheerpJ Applet Runner - Chrome Extension to Enable Java Applets
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
appletchrome-extensionjava
leaningtech/cheerpx-flash
Sep 2020 - May 2022
CheerpX for Flash - extend the life of Flash applications thanks to HTML5 virtualization
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
virtualization
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