Summary
Stefano Salati is a systems engineering leader with a decade-plus track record designing and integrating vehicle E/E architectures for high-stakes domains from Formula 1 at Ferrari to Level‑4 autonomous platforms at Argo AI and CARIAD. He blends hands-on hardware and software expertise—sensors, computing, networking, logging and safety—with programme-level tech leadership, having led VW ID Buzz integration, modular vehicle prototypes and SW integration/test clusters. Comfortable across prototype-to-production transitions, he has driven component industrialization, harness and power distribution reviews, and risk-mitigating design for harsh environments and hot‑climate operation. He combines academic rigor (MSc summa cum laude) and practical ML/vision skills from Toyota Motorsport and Philips Research with entrepreneurial experience co-founding a gesture-control hardware startup that surpassed its crowdfunding goal. Based in Munich, he thrives at the intersection of automotive systems, autonomy and scalable engineering processes, often surfacing pragmatic modularity and upgradability solutions that aren’t obvious from specs alone.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange, Electronic Engineering, Erasmus Exchange, Electronic Engineering at University of Twente
Self-Driving Car Engineer, Computer Science, Self-Driving Car Engineer, Computer Science at Udacity
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electronic Engineering, Summa cum Laude, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electronic Engineering, Summa cum Laude at Università degli Studi di Parma
English, Italian, German