Matteo Meneghetti

Leading a cross-functional engineering team (mechanical, electrical and firmware/software) owning roadmap and cross-discipline coordination

• Supervised the mechanical, electronic and software development of the Piccolo bioreactor platform, bringing a working MVP to completion in 7 months
• Own the product roadmap, translating platform goals into engineering priorities and shippable milestones
• Retain technical ownership of the embedded and software architecture through the transition into the leadership role

Designed and built the full embedded and software stack for a next-generation bioreactor platform, from real-time firmware and industrial communication protocols to the operator-facing control interface.

• Architected Piccolo OS, the platform's control interface for real-time process monitoring and trend visualization
• Developed real-time firmware on Zephyr RTOS: closed-loop controls, sensor acquisition and hardware drivers for bioprocess equipment
• Integrated industrial protocols across the stack: Modbus RTU, CAN bus and MQTT for cloud telemetry
• Developed independent Python tooling for bioprocess data integration, analysis, and visualization

Contributed to EXOR’s industrial HMI and edge computing platform, focusing on real-time communication protocol design and embedded systems development.

• Designed and maintained the communication protocol stack for EXOR’s HMI product line, implementing industrial protocols including PROFINET, CAN and NMEA2000 for real-time field device connectivity
• Authored technical design documents and roadmaps for protocol integration features, aligning engineering priorities with product strategy
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to debug and resolve field-level communication issues across PLC and SCADA systems

Designed and implemented mission-critical C/C++ firmware for robotic actuator control and real-time sensor data acquisition, establishing the lab’s core control system framework used across multiple research projects.

• Developed low-level firmware for robotic actuators (motors, servo drives, force/torque sensors), handling real-time closed-loop control with deterministic timing constraints
• Architected a reusable embedded control framework that became the standard platform for the lab’s experimental setups, reducing development time for new projects
• Integrated sensor acquisition pipelines for real-time data capture, enabling high-frequency logging and closed-loop feedback for manipulation and locomotion experiments
• Collaborated with PhD researchers and professors on research projects, contributing embedded systems expertise to publications and conference demonstrations