# Alessandro Zummo

> Staff Software Engineer, Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alessandrozummo

The devil is in the details.

Specialties: Linux Kernel development, natural language, machine learning, automotive, reverse engineering, electronics, open source, embedded, microcontrollers, iOS

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founder & CEO @ Tower Technologies
Jan 2001 – Jan 2016 | Torino, Italy
TowerTech is a company I've designed from the ground up. Active in the fields of mobile computing, automotive and embedded linux platforms, TowerTech has developed many successful solutions. Other than the day-to-day management tasks, I've designed, among others, the TT3201 CAN Bus interface for the BeagleBone, the iReader line of products and sales force automation apps for the iOS platform.

### Chief Technology Officer @ Workshop & Design S.r.l.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Torino, Italy
As CTO I oversee the development of mobile applications for our main customers in the banking and medical business. We developed home banking apps for the casual user and medical apps targeted to medics and surgeons, focusing on quality, user experience and usability, up to each and every pixel.

### Partner @ 5Taps Network
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Subsystem Maintainer @ Linux
Jan 2006 – Jan 2016
Created, upstreamed and maintained the RTC subsystem, which now supports over one hundred of different RTC chips.

### Chief Technology Officer @ Maxima
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | Torino, Italy
At Maxima my duties involved network planning and management. I've engineered and deployed  the telephony, computer and networking systems connecting the two branches of Maxima with both the internet and the Nissan's Intranet.

### Kernel Wrangler @ nslu2-linux.org
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
As a member of the core team, my responsibility in the NSLU2-Linux project is to adapt the Linux Kernel to every project supported embedded platform. 
To satisfy those needs I've developed the new Real Time Clock subsystem, which has been officially adopted in the Linux Kernel in 2006 and carries more than 70 different drivers.

### Field Engineer @ ZyXEL
Jan 1999 – Jan 2003
ZyXEL is a leading networking hardware manufacturer
with a product line that ranges from personal modems to
mid-end routers and wireless appliances.
My duties were under NDA and involved field and beta testing
of new products.

### Teacher @ Euphon S.p.A.
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002
Euphon, a leading media agency, realized how
important the Linux Operating System was for
their business and decided to train their
IT staff accordingly. I was hired to develop 
and hold an introductory Linux course, later
followed by a insightful one about the
Linux networking features.

### Software Developer @ E3C S.r.l.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002
I worked for E3C as a consultant for their Linux
based products and as a coder on a Texas
Instruments based DSP board which performed
real-time magnetic analysis for quality assurance tasks in the banking industry.

### Field Engineer @ Sanpaolo
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999
Networking hardware installation, training, on-site mainteinance and troubleshooting.

### Software Developer @ NonSoLoSoft
Jan 1997 – Jan 1997
I developed a bar-code based Point Of Sale software
solution under AmigaOS which has proven to be
helpful to handle the huge volume of sales
NonSoLoSoft sustained during the first edition
of the Pianeta Amiga show.


## Education
### Computer Engineering in Electronics Engineering
Politecnico di Torino

### Business planning and management
I3P - Politecnico di Torino

### Cisco Network Academy

### Liceo Scientifico

### Rygaards International School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alessandrozummo
- Portfolio: http://www.towertech.it

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Last updated: 2026-04-12