Umberto Baldi
Full Stack Engineer at Jimdo
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolUmberto Baldi is a Full Stack Engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable, production-grade backend and frontend systems, currently focused on payments and subscription workflows at Jimdo. He spent the bulk of his career at Arduino, where he led the Tooling Backend team, owned end-to-end service design, and improved developer and firmware workflows—contributions that included meaningful work on the widely used arduino-cli. Comfortable across DevOps, CI/CD and secure release practices, he has hands-on experience shipping crash-reporting, auto-updates, and secure-boot support for embedded toolchains. Umberto pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship, having onboarded and coached engineers while rapidly responding to security incidents. Based in Turin, he brings a hardware-aware software background (FPGA/HIL prototyping and embedded testing) that helps bridge firmware and cloud tooling in IoT ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Torino
Github Skills (22)
dependency-management10
command-line-interface10
go10
command-line10
error-handling10
arduino10
cli10
cicd9
bash9
devops9
cobra9
zsh9
shell8
automated-tests8
sh8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/arduino-create-agent
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Arduino Cloud Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 165 reviews, 181 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Umberto contributed to the Arduino Cloud Agent by addressing multiple aspects of the project. They fixed version and commit issues related to the tray menu and Windows executable. They implemented crash-reporting capabilities, including redirecting standard error, creating log files, and adding menu options. Additionally, they enabled auto-updates and made changes to dependencies like `go.bug.st/serial` and `codeclysm/extract`.
safarifirefoxagentchromearduino
arduino/arduino-cli
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Arduino command line tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:396 reviews, 72 commits, 95 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Umberto primarily contributed to the Arduino CLI command-line tool, enhancing its functionality and user experience. Their work included adding features such as tab completion for various shells (bash, zsh, fish, and powershell) and improving the `board details` command by adding a FQBN flag. They also addressed bugs related to Zsh completion and improved code quality. Moreover, they refactored code, and added secure boot support for the compile command.
golangcommand-line-tooltooling-teamarduinocommand-line
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