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John Tassone

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Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in software development for connected products, embedded systems and cloud platforms.

United Kingdom
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- Developed a distributed Python data pipeline on Azure (Storage, SQL and Machine Learning) to ingest and process images for a press brake safety-system fault-diagnostic model.

- Implemented C++ firmware to provide Bluetooth connectivity to 1 central and 5 peripheral devices for a loading bay safety product.

- Captured and analysed requirements for three projects: a tender-submission automation tool, a customer-facing AI agent and a fault-diagnostic system.

- Led the software development process within the software team by running requirements gathering, design reviews, and performing code reviews.

- Designed the architecture and oversaw the development of the embedded software for an air quality monitor.

- Delivered in-person workshops to five operating companies about software development best practice and responsible use of AI tools.

- Led a three-person software team that improved Smartstor reliability, reducing customer support tickets from 70 to 5 per week.

- Redesigned the Smartstor Python application from a monolithic architecture into microservices with clearly defined APIs and separation of responsibilities.

- Integrated third-party APIs to retrieve energy pricing and weather forecast data used to generate the battery charging schedule.

- Designed and implemented interfaces for MySQL customer-account database and NoSQL (InfluxDB) to store, retrieve and aggregate energy-consumption, pricing and forecasting data.

- Built a test suite for Smartstor with over 600 test cases using pytest that enabled fast and smooth software development iterations.

- Automated test execution, code linting, formatting and staged deployment to AWS EC2 through GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

- Defined and enforced Python coding standards and code-review practices, and automated technical documentation using Sphinx.

- Delivered embedded and connected systems for medical, telecommunications and consumer applications, including a smart implant, connected inhaler, kidney diagnostic platform, wireless communication system and COVID-19 emergency ventilator.

- Developed embedded software in C for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics, Nordic Semiconductor and NXP.

- Designed software architecture and chose patterns based on the requirements, justifying and documenting the trade-offs made.

- Extended a Python test framework with hardware-in-the-loop with hundreds of test cases to perform integration testing of the new features of the wireless telecommunication system, specifically the Baseband Unit and Remote Radio Head subsystem.

- Investigated software and hardware defects, performing debugging and root-cause analysis across the projects.

- Used SysML modelling language to produce technical documentation with clear diagrams to accompany the software in the handover to the client.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Senior Solutions Engineer

Jan 2026 - Present (9 months)

Provided hands-on engineering support to Halma operating companies, translating business and technical needs into solution architectures, prototypes, and delivery recommendations across AI, cloud, embedded, and industrial technology projects. Developed Copilot Studio and RAG solutions, automated UAT execution, and led technical discovery and architecture reviews.

CC

Senior Software Engineer

Cambridge Consultants

Nov 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Led a three-person software team improving Smartstor reliability and reducing support tickets from 70 to 5 per week. Redesigned the Python application into microservices, integrated third-party APIs, and built a test suite with over 600 test cases.

DE

Development Engineer

DNA Electronics

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Built software in C++ for RISC-based ATmega2560 chip to control air compressor, solenoid valve, and peristaltic pump for a test rig used in quality control of microfluidic cartridges.

QT

Product Development and Test Engineer

Quanta Dialysis Technologies

Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 8 months)

Designed and implemented PID control software in C to stress-test the water-heating system of a portable dialysis machine.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universita Campus Bio-Medico logoUB

Universita Campus Bio-Medico

Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Universita Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy.

Universita Campus Bio-Medico logoUB

Universita Campus Bio-Medico

Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering

Pursued a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Universita Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy.

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