Summary
Vittorio Boccone is a detector physicist and systems engineer with 12+ years of cross-disciplinary R&D and software experience, now serving as Radiation Safety Officer and Lead R&D Scientist at DECTRIS in Zurich. He combines hands-on hardware skills—creating detector prototypes and leading transfers from R&D to manufacturing—with software expertise in CI/CD, firmware integration, and DevOps practices. Trained at CERN and in Swiss academia, he has deep experience in radiation simulation, shielding and safety (FLUKA), beam-loss studies, and large-scale data acquisition systems. An Agile enthusiast and technology scout, he consistently drives process improvements and cross-team synergy to accelerate product delivery. Outside formal roles he is a Ham Radio operator, hardware hacker and biker, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s mindset that fuels inventive problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Zurich
Master of Science (MS), Particle Physics, Master of Science (MS), Particle Physics at Università degli Studi di Genova
Jenkins Course@London
French, English, Italian, German