Stefano Gottardo
Ingegnere Meccanico Responsabile Tecnico Presso Alu-Pro Srl at Alu-Pro srl
Venice, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Gottardo is a mechanical engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience leading production, maintenance and technical teams in aluminum and steel vehicle and tank manufacturing. Based in Venice, he currently serves as Technical Manager at Alu-Pro after roles as Production Manager at OMT and Maintenance Lead at Pansac, combining workshop leadership with supplier coordination and client-focused solutions. He brings practical simulation and process expertise from earlier consultancy work using MAGMASOFT for foundry and casting processes, and has a track record of improving manufacturing uptime and bespoke equipment design. Unusually for a senior mechanical engineer, Stefano is also an active open-source contributor to the Kodi ecosystem on GitHub, improving core video/audio streaming and subtitle handling in widely used projects like xbmc and inputstream.adaptive. That cross-disciplinary blend gives him a rare perspective on both embedded/media software integration and heavy-mechanical systems. Fluent in Italian and experienced across factory floor to technical office responsibilities, he excels at turning complex engineering requirements into reliable, serviceable products.
11 years of coding experience
Laurea, Ingegneria meccanica, Laurea, Ingegneria meccanica at Università degli Studi di Padova
Italian, English
Github Skills (13)
videojs10
media-playback10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
video-player10
playback10
webvtt10
subtitle10
text-processing10
apidoc9
api9
json-rpc9
substr8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/inputstream.adaptive
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
kodi inputstream addon for several manifest types
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 349 reviews, 110 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to improving the inputstream.adaptive project by fixing and improving subtitle properties. These changes included fixing subtitle role tag properties, adding properties like 'forced' and 'impaired' to the AdaptationSet, and adding support for parsing an adaptation set "name" parameter. Further improvements included adding a string replace helper function, correcting WebVTT rlm and lrm tags, fixing the nextEmpty issue on replaceAll, and the ability to retry segments on non-live streams, indicating a focus on enhancing subtitle handling and stream reliability.
manifestinputstreamvaapiaddonkodi
xbmc/xbmc
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:751 reviews, 236 commits, 303 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Kodi project, with a focus on improving the JSON-RPC interface and video and audio streaming functionality. Their work included adding and fixing flags properties for audio and subtitle streams, copying name properties to the stream, and modifying the handling of video streams. These changes involved modifications to C++ code, specifically in the `PlayerOperations.cpp` and related files, indicating a focus on core video playback features and API interactions.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
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