Description

Marco is a senior electronic engineer with 10+ years of experience in automotive and power semiconductor applications. He supports clients with design reviews, troubleshooting, and optimization of high-voltage and power electronics systems.

His experience includes high-voltage measurement equipment, power supply issue analysis, and cross-disciplinary work between hardware and software. In parallel, Marco maintains 400+ open-source Cygwin packages, reflecting a strong commitment to quality, reliability, and long-term support.

Clients describe Marco as reliable, communicative, and focused on delivering practical results.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Italian
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Munich (up to 50km)

Self-Employed
Expert on Automotive and Power Semiconductor
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
March 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
Munich, Germany
• Consulting on High Voltage (6-20 kV) measurement equipment designs, including C-embedded code review and debug.
• Reviewing power supply issue for corner design case in harsh enviroment: Radiation, exteme temperature
Power Electronics Product Development Embedded Systems
Cygwin.com
Volunteer Package Maintainer
DIGITAL AND IT
September 2008 - Today (17 years and 9 months)
Package maintainer for more than 400 software packages in the Cygwin/Unix distribution.
https://www.cygwin.com

Cygwin is a UNIX like enviroment for Windows for which I started the maintainer activities in 2008 after being a user for long time.
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2008-September/002842.html

On Brian Kernighan "Unix. A history and Memoir"
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.html
Cygwin is reported on Chapter 8 "Descendants" just after Linux.

Fully responsible for the deployment of binary packages and when required cooperating with upstream developer teams to include any specific Cygwin requirements.

Mainly focus on tools and libraries, including

mathematical ones
- Octave : a Matlab like program https://www.octave.org/
- Lapack : linear algebral package https://www.netlib.org/lapack/
- OpenBlas: optimized BLAS library http://www.openmathlib.org/OpenBLAS /
- GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/

electric circuit simulator
- NGSPICE https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/

programming tools and editors:
- GNU Make https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
- VIM Editor https://www.vim.org/
- Python https://www.python.org/

database
- PostgreSQL https://www.postgresql.org/

Full overview of my maintainer acticity is available on
https://repology.org/maintainer/marco.atzeri%40cygwin
Python software architect PostgreSQL Product management Matlab
Wolfspeed
WW Product Marketing Manager - Automotive
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
January 2020 - February 2025 (5 years and 1 month)
Munich Metropolitan Area, Germany
Defined product characteristics and coordinated projecs until product releases for the 650-750V & 1200V Silicon Carbide Discrete Automotive Mosfets.
Trained R&D and Package development teams, located in North Carolina (USA), on the specific requirements and expectations of the Automotive Market (Q101 , AQG324).
Participated as Wolfspeed member to the ECPE AQG-324 working group. Worldwide Trainer for Automotive Field Application Engineers to enable them for effective design win efforts.
Managed relationship together with relevant Customer Quality Engineers on OEM specific requirements: Toyota Automotive, BMW, Delta Automotive (Taiwan & Germany) ...
Automotive Product Development Product management Power Semiconductor