Senior Electronic Engineer · Italy / EU

Engineering
with evidence.

Hi, I’m Luigi

I turn complex electronic requirements into systems that can be built, tested and trusted.

My work connects hardware design, validation and production engineering with software and cloud-native tooling.

Electronic systemsHardware · Power · Embedded
Validation & productionTesting · EMC · Industrialization
Connected engineeringCloud · DevOps · IoT

Interactive engineering system

01 / SENSOR ACQUISITION
MODEL / IOT-REF-A17
PBR / REALTIME
XYZ
DRAG TO ROTATE · WHEEL TO ZOOM
System dossier01 / 06
01

Actuators & sensors

ANALOG · DIGITAL · PWM

Inside this subsystem

DATA JOURNEY1 / 9

Hardware discipline.
Software ambition.

My work sits where reliability, compliance and scale meet. I translate requirements into testable systems, find failure modes early, and build the tooling that makes engineering repeatable.

01

Validation & verification

Test strategy and execution for electronic products operating under real-world electrical, thermal, EMC and vibration stress.

Test plansEMCDurability
02

Electronic systems

Digital, analog and power electronics across requirements, schematics, PCB, cabling and component engineering.

PCBPowerMixed signal
03

Production readiness

Industrialization and scalable production testing, from flying probe and inline inspection to end-of-line benches.

EOLAOITest benches
04

Cloud-native tooling

Practical infrastructure and software skills used to automate workflows and build observable, resilient services.

KubernetesDockerCI/CD
05

Systems thinking

Connecting stakeholder needs, requirements, interfaces, verification evidence and lifecycle constraints.

V-modelCSVCompliance
06

Edge & IoT

Exploring orchestration for sensor networks, autonomous edge computing and connected industrial environments.

IoTEdgeObservability

Designed to work.
Tested to endure.

Hands-on verification across environmental stress, electromagnetic compatibility, product function, regulatory compliance and production readiness—from qualification planning through test execution, analysis and evidence.

01

Thermal-vacuum testing

Environmental verification under combined temperature extremes and vacuum conditions for aerospace electronic systems.

02

EMC testing

Electromagnetic compatibility assessment covering immunity, emissions and system behavior in representative electrical environments.

03

Vibration testing

Mechanical qualification under vibration profiles to expose structural, interconnect and assembly weaknesses.

04

Functional testing

Requirement-based verification of product functions, interfaces, operating modes and expected system responses.

05

CE compliance

Compliance-oriented testing and technical evidence supporting product conformity for the European market.

06

Mass-production testing

Production validation through end-of-line, in-line, AOI and flying-probe methods built for repeatability at scale.

07

Durability analysis

Lifecycle and stress analysis used to identify degradation, investigate failures and demonstrate long-term robustness.

Where theory met the test bench.

Senior Electronic Engineer

TME · Caserta, Italy

Military-grade electronic systems. Designing cabling and schematics, testing RF systems, troubleshooting hardware, and building Node.js tools for engineering processes.

Lead Hardware Validation Engineer

Eaton · Prague, Czech Republic

Validation ownership. Leading hardware verification strategy, environmental testing and evidence for demanding power-management products.

Validation Engineer

Eaton · Prague, Czech Republic

From plan to proof. Executing electrical, thermal, EMC and durability validation while improving test methods and reporting.

Engineering ideas
into viable businesses.

Through international startup programs and hands-on work on YesBat, I developed practical business-development knowledge—from customer discovery and market analysis to business-model design, go-to-market planning and investor communication.

Applied venture building · YesBat

Technical insight.
Business direction.

Working as a YesBat co-founder gave me the opportunity to apply structured venture-building methods with mentors and industry experts. Through BGI, EIT Jumpstarter and 28DIGITAL Mentor Me, I learned how to test commercial assumptions, identify valuable customer problems, evaluate markets, design a sustainable business model and translate a technical solution into a credible venture strategy.

Business-development knowledge acquired

01 / Pitching

Pitch and deck preparation

Learned how to structure a compelling pitch, create a clear and persuasive deck, and communicate the opportunity effectively to mentors, partners and investors.

02 / Validation

Market validation

Learned how to identify customer segments, conduct discovery, distinguish assumptions from evidence and evaluate whether a technical solution addresses a sufficiently important market need.

03 / Strategy

Go-to-market strategy

Developed practical knowledge of value propositions, competitive positioning, acquisition channels, early adopters and effective market-entry strategies through the BGI program.

04 / Planning

Business plan

Learned through EIT Jumpstarter and Mentor Me how to build a coherent business plan, define suitable revenue models and connect technical milestones with commercial objectives.

Customer discoveryMarket segmentationValue propositionBusiness modelsCompetitive analysisGo-to-market strategyFinancial planningInvestor pitching

Never done learning.

Learning path from electronics to cloud native

Open each record for the original program details, modules, status, official curriculum and certificate evidence.

All certificates ↗

Fundraising and business development

Startup mentoring · venture creation · sustainable innovation

These programs strengthened my approach to business development, helping me turn early-stage ideas into stronger venture proposals. Through pitch development and market validation, I learned to understand customer needs and shape a go-to-market strategy supported by a practical business plan. I also explored public fundraising and how to prepare a project for funding opportunities.

28DIGITAL · Mentor Me2026

Mentor Me supports early-stage digital and deep-tech startups that already have a prototype or MVP. Its online format combines topic-based mentoring, interactive workshops, masterclasses and on-demand advice from founders and industry experts.

The program focuses on team dynamics, product–market fit, funding readiness, and sales and marketing. Founders work on their investment story and pitch deck while refining their roadmap, customer positioning and approach to growth.

EIT Jumpstarter 20262026

EIT Jumpstarter is a seven-month European pre-acceleration program for turning an early-stage innovation into a viable venture. It brings together sector-specific expertise, individual coaching, training and connections to EIT innovation communities.

The program develops the case for an idea by examining the customer problem, the proposed solution, the market opportunity, implementation risks and the team behind it. Its thematic areas include energy, healthcare, food, raw materials and urban mobility.

Mentors from Invento Capital Partners: Klara Šabić, Natali Bernatović and Nenad Buljan.

BGI · Urban Mobility Startup Creation2026

Led by BGI with EIT Urban Mobility, this venture-building program helps early-stage teams move from an urban mobility concept toward a validated product and a company. It combines a startup bootcamp with individual mentoring and a final Demo Day.

Participants work on the value proposition, target customers, business model and go-to-market plan, then develop an investor-ready MVP and present their progress to industry experts and potential investors. Focus areas include urban logistics, public transport, electrification and mobility data.

Program references: Jan Mrkous, project manager of the program, and Pedro Coutinho, mentor during go-to-market strategy development.

Clean Tech Academy2025

This three-month program from Miticoro Foundation and Politecnico di Torino combined clean-energy foundations with research, innovation and an applied team project. Technical modules explored renewable energy, energy storage and smart grids; the innovation work covered problem framing, structured ideation, user validation and pitch development.

Final project: Utopic Network — a Blockchain Edge-of-Things concept for the Internet of Energy. The case study brought together edge orchestration and blockchain to explore secure, low-latency energy operations.

Designing in Italy for Global Citizenship2025

This 35-hour training program in Naples connected strategic project design with EU funding frameworks, including NextGenerationEU, Cohesion Policy and Horizon Europe. It covered project and grant management methods such as PM², the Logical Framework Approach, RACI, SWOT, stakeholder mapping and SMART indicators.

In a team exercise, participants developed a simulated EU-funded proposal from the initial concept through its budget and evaluation. The course also addressed digital transformation, environmental sustainability and inclusive governance as themes for public-interest projects.

Cybersecurity Superbundle

The Linux Foundation · Current

A security path covering Linux administration, Kubernetes platform security, DevSecOps pipelines, infrastructure protection and policy-as-code. Every module now opens independently.

Linux Administration Essentials · LFS20760h · completed

What you’ll learn

Administration across Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat families, Git collaboration, accounts, permissions, packages, processes, storage, kernels, networking, firewalls, systemd, backup and security.

What it prepares you for

Professional Linux system administration and, with experience and study, the LFCS exam.

Outline

Filesystem Layout · Users and Groups · Permissions · Package Managers · Git · Processes and Monitoring · Containers · Filesystems and LVM · Kernel and Devices · Networking and LDAP · Firewalls · systemd · Backup · Security Modules · System Rescue

Kubernetes Fundamentals · LFS258completed

What you’ll learn

Production Kubernetes installation, configuration, architecture, workloads, services, storage, scheduling, security, troubleshooting and high availability.

What it prepares you for

Operating containerized infrastructure and, with practical experience, the CKA exam.

Kubernetes Security Essentials · LFS26030h · completed

Description

Securing container applications and Kubernetes platforms across build, deployment and runtime, including supply-chain security, cluster hardening, monitoring and security-event logging.

What it prepares you for

Cloud-security responsibilities and, with experience and study, the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam.

Implementing DevSecOps · LFS26240h · pending

What you’ll learn

Adding SCA, SAST, DAST, image scanning, Dockerfile security, vulnerability management, IaC compliance, logging and detection to a cloud-native continuous-delivery pipeline using open-source tooling.

Infrastructure Security · SKF20024h · pending

Focus

Infrastructure threat modeling, risk reduction, hardening strategies, security tooling and operational practices across modern environments.

Kubernetes Security with Kyverno · LFS25535h · pending

What you’ll learn

Installing Kyverno; writing, enforcing, mutating and testing policies; monitoring and reporting; securing Kyverno; integration, extensibility and multi-cluster policy management.

Outline

Policy Overview · Installation · Writing Policies · Enforcement · Mutation · Validation and Testing · Troubleshooting · Reporting · Security · Integration · Multi-cluster Management

Linux Foundation System Administrator

The Linux Foundation · In progress

Linux systems administration and open-source operations, with supporting foundations in cloud infrastructure, GitOps, DevOps and SRE.

Linux Administration Essentials · LFS20760h · completed

Coverage

Enterprise Linux administration: users, packages, processes, storage, kernels, networking, services, backup, security and recovery.

Open Source Development · LFD1024h · pending

Coverage

Open-source project structure, communities, contribution workflows, licensing and collaborative development fundamentals.

Introduction to GitOps · LFS1693h · pending

Coverage

Git as the declarative source of truth, automated reconciliation, delivery workflows and operational GitOps patterns.

Cloud Infrastructure · LFS151completed

What you’ll learn

IaaS, PaaS, containers, orchestration, microservices, software-defined networking and storage, CI/CD, monitoring, service mesh, IoT and serverless architecture.

Outline

Virtualization · IaaS and PaaS · Containers · Orchestration · Microservices · SDN and Storage · DevOps and CI/CD · Configuration and Release Tools · Logging and Monitoring · Service Mesh · IoT · Serverless · Tracing

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering · LFS162completed

What you’ll learn

DevOps culture, cloud, containers, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability and SRE practices for reliable software delivery.

Outline

Introduction to DevOps and SRE · Cloud · Containers · Infrastructure as Code · Continuous Delivery · Observability · Site Reliability Engineering

Advanced Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program

The Linux Foundation · 06/2025—03/2026

A six-course cloud-native engineering program covering the container lifecycle, orchestration, service communication, monitoring, packaging and logging. Open a module below for its full record.

Container Fundamentals · LFS25306—07/2025

Who it is for

Developers, QA, operations and DevOps professionals who need a working foundation in containers.

What you’ll learn

Container and image operations across runtimes; container networking and storage; multi-container applications; Docker and Docker APIs.

What it prepares you for

Bundling applications with their dependencies and deploying to bare metal, VMs or cloud platforms, with a foundation for Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.

Course outline

1. Introduction · 2. Virtualization Fundamentals · 3. Virtualization Mechanisms · 4. Container Standards and Runtimes · 5. Image Operations · 6. Container Operations · 7. Building Images · 8. Networking · 9. Storage · 10. Runtime and Container Security

Kubernetes Fundamentals · LFS25808—09/2025

Who it is for

IT administrators and aspiring cloud engineers who want to manage containerized application infrastructure.

What you’ll learn

Installing and configuring a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, networking, upgrades, services, pods, Deployments and ReplicaSets.

What it prepares you for

Independent Kubernetes administration and, with practical experience, the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.

Course outline

Introduction · Kubernetes Basics · Installation · Architecture · APIs and Access · API Objects · Deployments · Helm and Kustomize · Volumes · Services · Ingress · Scheduling · Troubleshooting · CRDs · Security · High Availability · Exam Review

Service Mesh Fundamentals · LFS24310—11/2025

Description

Modern cloud-native traffic management: microservice resilience, sidecar data planes, control planes, ingress, observability and mTLS using Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, Consul and SMI.

Who it is for

DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers and platform engineers adopting microservice architectures.

What you’ll learn

Distributed-system challenges, resilience strategies, service-mesh architecture, data plane versus control plane, and the evolution of ingress.

Course outline

Cloud Native Apps · Resilience for Distributed Systems · Data and Control Planes · Service Mesh Fundamentals · Standards · Debugging and Mitigating Failures

Prometheus Monitoring · LFS24111—12/2025

Description

Cloud-native observability covering Prometheus architecture, time-series data, PromQL, exporters, Kubernetes discovery, Alertmanager, high availability, remote storage and Thanos.

Who it is for

DevOps engineers, SREs and system administrators building production observability skills.

What it prepares you for

Monitoring real systems at scale, creating dashboards and alerts, and the Prometheus Certified Associate exam.

Course outline

Observability · Prometheus Setup · Querying · Dashboards · Host and Container Metrics · Instrumentation · Exporters · Relabeling · Discovery · Blackbox Monitoring · Alerting · HA · Rules · Scaling · Local and Remote Storage · Kubernetes

Kubernetes Applications with Helm · LFS24412/2025—01/2026

Description

Helm architecture, production-ready chart design, repeatable releases, upgrades, rollbacks, repositories, dependencies and integration with CI/CD and GitOps workflows.

Who it is for

System administrators, DevOps engineers, SREs and software professionals operating containerized Kubernetes workloads.

What you’ll learn

Installing Helm, creating charts and managing an application’s full lifecycle safely across environments.

Course outline

Helm Basics · Setup and Initial Usage · Helm Charts · Application Lifecycle · Chart Repositories and Advanced Topics

Fluentd & Fluent Bit Logging · LFS24201—03/2026

Description

Production cloud-native logging with Fluentd and Fluent Bit: collecting, parsing, filtering, enriching, aggregating and forwarding logs through a unified logging layer.

Who it is for

System administrators and developers who need to operate cloud-native logging tools.

What you’ll learn

Native and container installations, log forwarding, sophisticated aggregation, pipeline design, monitoring, optimization, debugging and security.

Course outline

Fluent Ecosystem · Inputs and Outputs · Filtering and Pipelines · Parsing and Formatting · Multi-instance Deployments · Monitoring · Optimization · Security · Debugging and Tuning · Fluent Bit

Winter AI & Data Bootcamp

ProfessionAI · 12/2025—01/2026

Practical foundations in Python and AI, followed by workshops on LLM fine-tuning, model serving through REST APIs, RAG and agentic applications.

  • Python Programming 7h
  • AI Fundamentals 7h
  • Applied AI Workshops 8h

Minor in Agile Management

Nuclio Digital School · 16 hours

Agile principles and team delivery practices for managing iterative digital projects.

Introduction to DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

The Linux Foundation · 05—06/2025 · ≈112 self-paced hours

A four-course foundation in cloud environments, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes and the DevOps/SRE mindset.

Introduction to Jenkins · LFS167completed

Description

A practical foundation in Jenkins as a CI/CD orchestration platform connecting source control, builds, tests and deployment targets.

Who it is for

Teams evaluating Jenkins and engineers who need to establish an automated software-delivery workflow.

What you’ll learn

Installation, dashboard operation, plugins, freestyle and pipeline projects, security, third-party integrations and distributed builds with agents.

What it prepares you for

Operating and scaling Jenkins and progressing toward advanced pipeline optimization and enterprise CI/CD.

Course outline

CI/CD Overview · Installation · Dashboard · Plugins · Security · Projects · Freestyle Projects · Pipeline Projects · Distributed Builds · Next Steps

Introduction to Kubernetes · LFS158completed

Description

A structured introduction to Kubernetes architecture and cloud-native orchestration, with hands-on deployment and access through Minikube.

Who it is for

Teams and individuals beginning Kubernetes adoption; Linux administration knowledge is useful but not required.

What you’ll learn

Origins, architecture, control-plane concepts, Pods, Services, volumes, ConfigMaps, Secrets, authentication, authorization, networking, storage and ingress.

What it prepares you for

Testing cloud-native patterns and moving into advanced Kubernetes and platform-engineering topics.

Course outline

Monolith to Microservices · Orchestration · Kubernetes Architecture · Installation · Minikube · Building Blocks · Authentication and Authorization · Services · Applications · Volumes · ConfigMaps and Secrets · Ingress · Advanced Topics · Community

Cloud Infrastructure Technologies · LFS151completed

Description

A broad map of modern cloud architecture: service models, virtualization, containers, orchestration, microservices, networking, storage, observability, service mesh, IoT and serverless.

Who it is for

System administrators, developers and architects with limited prior cloud experience.

What you’ll learn

IaaS, PaaS and CaaS; Docker operations; software-defined networking and storage; CI/CD; configuration management; monitoring and distributed tracing.

What it prepares you for

Evaluating open-source cloud technologies and collaborating effectively across development and operations.

Course outline

Virtualization · IaaS · PaaS · Containers · Orchestration · Unikernels · Microservices · SDN · Software-defined Storage · DevOps and CI/CD · Configuration and Release Tools · Logging and Monitoring · Service Mesh · IoT · Serverless · Distributed Tracing

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering · LFS162completed

Description

Foundations, practices and cultural changes behind modern delivery and reliable operations, including cloud, containers, Infrastructure as Code, observability and SRE.

Who it is for

Managers leading transformation and engineers beginning a DevOps or SRE path.

What you’ll learn

How cloud and Kubernetes reshape delivery, why Infrastructure as Code matters, and how CI/CD and observability support reliable systems.

What it prepares you for

Deploying and operating software with greater confidence, agility and reliability.

Course outline

DevOps and SRE · Cloud · Containers · Infrastructure as Code · CI/CD · Observability · Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps with Docker

University of Helsinki · 3 ECTS

Docker fundamentals, containerizing existing applications, Compose-based multi-container systems, deployment pipelines and orchestration concepts.

Full Stack Developer Course

Nuclio Digital School · 05/2024—01/2025

Frontend and backend web engineering with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, databases, testing, Git workflows, deployment and agile team delivery.

Final project: random user group creation application using Node.js, Express and Supertest.

MSc — Electronic Systems

Politecnico di Torino · 120 CFU

Advanced training in the design, modeling and validation of complex electronic systems: integrated digital systems, analog and power electronics, low-power architectures, high-speed devices, embedded operating systems, sensors, radar and hardware–software co-design.

Curriculum & examinations120 CFU
Integrated Digital Systems10 CFU
High-Speed Electron Devices10 CFU
Analog & Power Electronics10 CFU
Radar & Remote Sensing8 CFU
Low-Power Electronic Systems6 CFU
Measurement & Sensor Systems8 CFU
Digital Microelectronics6 CFU
Numerical Methods6 CFU
Integrated Systems Technology6 CFU
Codesign Methods & Tools6 CFU
Wireless Platforms for IoT6 CFU
Integrated Systems Architecture6 CFU
Operating Systems6 CFU
Master Thesis30 CFU
Applied projects3 projects
Dual-input energy harvester with independent MPPT · Master thesis

Designed a DC/DC converter for photovoltaic and wind inputs using a multi-input boost architecture with variable-step perturb-and-observe maximum-power-point tracking. iXem Laboratory, DET.

PLA Evaluator · Integrated Systems Technology · 2017

Developed a MATLAB tool to exhaustively test PLAs and calculate static/dynamic power, output delay and silicon area; later integrated into the ToPoliNano cross-platform EDA software.

Microprogrammed FFT architecture in VHDL · 2015

Designed an architecture capable of executing the FFT butterfly algorithm, from Control Flow Diagram to VHDL testbench using Quartus II, MATLAB and ModelSim.

BSc — Electronic Engineering

Politecnico di Torino

Foundations in mathematics, physics, analog and digital electronics, control systems, signal processing and electromagnetic fields, supported by laboratory work and applied engineering projects.

Ideas currently
on the bench.

Ongoing personal products where I apply engineering discipline to software, infrastructure and real operational problems.

Have a hard problem? Let’s test it.

Caricature portrait of Luigi Cucciolillo

Open to engineering conversations across electronic systems, V&V, industrial tooling and cloud-native infrastructure.