Profile
Andrea Toscano
Master Degree in Computer Science
About Me
I am an extremely curious person, always eager to learn from others’ experience.
Highly adaptive in cross-cultural environments that have been fundamental for putting myself on the line, showing my own initiative and willingness to contribute in teamwork.
As a Software Engineer a put a focus con SW design and testing in order to deliver robust and effective solutions.
Among my passions I love writing music, playing the guitar, reading science fiction novels, travelling and taking photos with my drone.
What you can find here
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Info about my career, education, projects and passions.
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
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Autonomous Driving Software Engineer @ FCA Italy
12/2018-pres.
Munich, Germany
Currently involved in one of the cross-functional teams for the Autonomous Driving Project incollaboration with BMW.
– Currently based in Munich and working at the BMW Autonomous Driving Campus
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Data Scientist @ The AvantGarde Group
06/2018-12/2018.
Milan, Italy
As a Data Scientist working in the RegTech domain, my main goal has been understanding Business requirements to implement and deliver solutions to our clients. Being part of an agile team has been fundamental for rapid and effective feedback with other counterparts.
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R&D Software Engineer @ Imaginalis
06/2017-06/2018.
Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
My responsibilities in the R&D team focus on the development of the new line of Veterinary CT Scanners for small and medium size animals.
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Software Engineer @ Telespazio VEGA Deutschland
04/2016-06/2017
Darmstadt, Germany
I have worked on a cutting-edge technology for UAVs detection and classification with different type of sensors.
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Consultant @ PwC Advisory
09/2015-02/2016
Milan, Italy
I got hands-on experience on Consolidate financial statement systems, working on reports/input tables in SAP BPC.
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Solution Architect, SEO and Maintainer
2014-pres
Milan, Italy
RinnovoPatenteMilano.net Rinnovo Patente Milano is the first independent Driving License renewal Service in Milan by Search Engine ranking and customer satisfaction. Website ranked #1 on Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo with the most common domain-specific keywords.
Education
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Master in Computer Science
10/09/2012 - 23/04/2015
Università degli Studi di Milano
FINAL GRADE: 110/110 cum Laude.
Thesis: The Comelicottero: experiments on quadcopter’s flight control.
UAV design and implementation with Arduino Yùn: IMU signal filtering, PIDs control system, PWM signal generation, Wireless communication, GUI.
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Bachelor of Computer Science
13/09/2010-05/11/2012
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Thesis: Mixed audio tracks classification with Breiman Forests.
Programming Skills
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QT C++
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Arduino
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Python
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Others
Projects
Blog
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Data Driven Testing with Qt
!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! Hi everyone, today I’m here to show a brief example of a completely Data Driven Test Suite implemented with the Qt Framework. The main goals are: Showing how to execute data driven tests with QtTest. Handling input and verification data directly from a configuration file. The…
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Arduino Light Mood Lamp with RGB LEDs
!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! Hi folks, today I’ll show a simple project I realised for Valentine’s day for my girlfriend. The main purpose is using Arduino Uno to build a small ambient lamp which changes LED colours depending on light intensity. I have simply adopted few 10mm RGB LEDs, an Arduino…
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Fading LEDs with sine wave
Hi everybody, the purpose of this post is to explain a simple technique concerning LED fading. One common issue in fading a LED is blocking the execution of the loop() in a for loop as long as it performs the fading. This approach wastes a lot of resources since the microcontroller can only perform this action…
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Comelicottero Team @ WeMake Milano
Thanks to Zoe Romano (Digital Strategy and Wearables @ Arduino) Comelicottero Team had the opportunity to explain their quadcopter project to the enthusiastic audience of the WeMake makerspace fablab ! Comelicottero quadcopter developed by Andrea Toscano, Simone Castellani and Giovanni Intorre at Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI) – Informatica Magistrale
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DALab @New Game Designer 2015 – Università degli Studi di Milano
Digital Architecture Lab. took part at New Game Designer 2015 on July 2 at Università degli Studi di Milano. DALab team (Andrea Toscano, Federico Pedersini, Simone Mentasti) exhibited new and old projects like Comelicottero quadcopter and FPGA Tetris
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Comelicottero quadcopter on Arduino.cc website
Comelicottero quadcopter Project will be soon available on www.arduino.cc‘s Forum. Some tutorials will be provided in order to set up Comelicottero’s firmware on Yun and the Ground Station on the personal computer. See Arduino Blog for further info: http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/06/08/building-a-quadcopter-running-on-arduino-yun/ Comelicottero developed by: Andrea Toscano, Giovanni Intorre, Simone Castellani. Andrea’s Supervisor: Prof. Federico Pedersini Università degli…
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400Hz PWM on Atmega32u4 for multirotors (without using Servo Library)
!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! The main issue using the Servo Library is that you can hardly go faster than 125Hz, with a huge amount of interrupts generated. I use instead 16bit Timer1 and Timer3 to generate PWM signals @400Hz on 4 pins (up to 6 pins). No interrupts are required….
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Metro Drone Challenge (Roma Drone 2015) – 2nd place winner
2nd place Winner – Metro Drone Challenge with “Duomo di Milano” shot realised with my Phantom 2 Vision. Metro Italia – 29/May/2015 Here you can see all the winners for the photography and video sections: Metro Drone Challenge Winners Award ceremony available on youtube:
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U-Blox Neo M8N U-Center configuration and Arduino parser sketch
!! U-Blox Neo M8N configuration file and Arduino sketch available on my gitHub toskyRocker account !! Today I’ll explain how to configure the outstanding U-Blox Neo M8N GPS/GLONASS receiver for multirotors usage. Introduction to the U-Blox Neo M8N Why this receiver? Well, the answer is pretty simple: it’s one of the best receivers you can…
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FuzzyDeath – Simple tank with fuzzy approach for FirePower (RoboCode)
!! Code available on my GitHub toskyRocker account !! Bot developed by Andrea Toscano and Francesco Giorgio – Università degli Studi di Milano – Master in Computer Science (Informatica) The aim of the project is to implement a fuzzy driven bot, named FuzzyDeath, for Robocode. Given enemy’s speed and position our bot will decide the…
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