Stefano Terna
Co-founder at Stefano Terna
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolStefano Terna is a physicist-turned-entrepreneur and software architect with over a decade designing IoT, ML and high-throughput database systems as co-founder of TomorrowData and an independent consultant. He blends academic rigor from a PhD in theoretical physics with hands-on engineering—leading 30+ projects across automotive, banking, pharma, energy and telco and implementing scalable MQTT/XMPP device architectures and continuous on-device ML training. Stefano has deep backend experience (including contributing MongoDB integrations to the well-known mosquitto-auth-plug) and a track record building real-time web interfaces, OTA firmware pipelines and data-labeling workflows. Comfortable switching between technical leadership, product management and after-sales support, he also brings formal analysis skills to extract robust models from noisy data. Based in Turin, he is a pragmatic innovator who designs systems that keep running in the field while enabling iterative model improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea, Fisica, 110/110 lode, Laurea, Fisica, 110/110 lode at Università degli Studi di TorinoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), High energy particles, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High energy particles at SISSA
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
databases10
mosquitto10
backend10
c1110
mongodb10
back-end-development10
data-integration10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
apidoc9
bson9
api9
authentication6
google-account6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jpmens/mosquitto-auth-plug
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Authentication plugin for Mosquitto with multiple back-ends (MySQL, Redis, CDB, SQLite3)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Mosquitto authentication plugin, specifically focusing on integrating with a MongoDB database. Their work involved fixing bugs related to cursor usage, specifically addressing infinite loops, and modifying how data, such as topic IDs, are retrieved and handled from the database. The user demonstrated expertise in interacting with the MongoDB C driver (mongoc) and modifying code to ensure correct data retrieval and improved functionality within the authentication plugin.
redismosquittomysqlauthenticationsqlite3
iottly/iottly-docker
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 64 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
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