Real-time firmware for the team's avionics: ESP32, FreeRTOS across both cores, ISR-safe shutdown of the pyrotechnic channels, sensor drivers, telemetry logging. Also the unglamorous half — debugging firing circuits, reworking LGA/QFN sensors by hand, and reading a flight's CSV to learn that the logger ran at 0.84 Hz and the MCU browned out at liftoff. Software team lead since September 2026.
Federico Bosi — computer engineer, Bologna
Software that flies.
Flight computers for a student rocketry team, an app that strangers paid for, a few exploits for sport. Now studying AI at the University of Bologna and looking for the next thing worth building.
- 110/110 cum laude, Computer Engineering, University of Bologna
- 3rd place, European Hackathon League, Zürich
- Two first prizes, HackRome 2026
- 3rd nationally, CyberChallenge.IT Attack/Defense
- Software lead, Aurora Rocketry
- 200+ servers, Imola Informatica
- Upstream OpenStack, with Canonical
- First shipped product at sixteen
Selected work
An AI-based grocery ordering app. It took two first prizes at HackRome 2026 and is now being built out as a commercial product.
A tool for analysing the binaries that run on industrial PLCs — the code that runs factories and was never meant to be read.
Routing that ranks roads by how good they are to ride — curvature, surface, weather, the bike you're on — instead of how short they are. Indicator survey done; data connectors and the scoring engine are in progress.
A contribution to OpenStack made with Canonical.
Infrastructure engineering on a fleet of more than two hundred servers. Where I learned what "production" actually means.
Third place nationally in Attack/Defense. Privilege escalation, Linux capabilities, GDB, the usual.
Built at sixteen. 1,500 users, €20k+ processed. The first time strangers paid for something I wrote.
Path
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Sep 2026
Software team leadAurora Rocketry
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Sep 2026
MSc Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Bologna
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Sep 2026
3rd place, European Hackathon LeagueZürich
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Jul 2026
BSc Computer Engineering, 110/110 cum laudeUniversity of Bologna
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Jun 2026
Two first prizesHackRome
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May 2026
LaunchAurora Rocketry — first flight data from the avionics
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earlier
- Avionics firmware & electronicsAurora Rocketry
- Infrastructure engineeringImola Informatica
- OpenStack contributionCanonical
- InternshipDiemme Filtration
- 3rd nationally, Attack/DefenseCyberChallenge.IT
- Erasmus exchangeNorthern Ireland, 2022
- Cafeteria ordering appage sixteen
About
The first program I ever saw was my father fixing a PC that wouldn't boot, from a terminal, when I was in primary school. I wanted to know how he had talked to it. In middle school he gave me a book on JavaScript, and I haven't really stopped since.
Since then: a cafeteria app at sixteen, infrastructure work on a couple of hundred servers, a lot of CTFs, and a rocketry team where the code gets exactly one chance to be right.
I'm now doing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bologna. The long game is building a company, probably in the US. Away from the keyboard: motorcycles, and the etymology of the Romagnolo dialect.
- Now
- Software lead, Aurora Rocketry
- Studying
- MSc AI, University of Bologna
- Based
- Bologna, Italy
- Speaks
- Italian, English
- Open to
- Internships, research, and co-founders with a problem worth solving
Contact
Say hi.
federico@rhxto.com