Dr. T

Tiziano Fiorucci

Born under the Italian sun in 1994, I made the bold decision to swap espresso for Earl Grey and dedicate my life to the noble pursuit of making technology not explode — or at least, fail gracefully.

Currently, I serve as Head of Testing and Reliability at WindShape, where I lead a crack team of engineers in ensuring UAV systems are as reliable as a British queue. Before that, I lent my talents to CERN, tinkering away at VLSI reliability — essentially persuading subatomic particles to behave, which, as you might imagine, is rather like herding cats with PhDs.

Prior to that, I designed high-reliability hardware at STMicroelectronics, ensuring chips survive everything short of Armageddon. My earlier escapades include testing my own detector design under neutron bombardment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (yes, it survived — and so did I), and establishing secure links for Thales Alenia Space, presumably to prevent aliens from hacking our satellites.

My academic exploits culminated in a PhD in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, where I specialized in making automotive SoCs safe enough to trust your tea kettle’s life to.

Along the way, I have published more papers than I’ve had hot dinners (granted, I’m Italian — so that’s saying something).

Languages? Fluent in English, naturally. Italian mother tongue. French and Spanish, with an accent so charming it practically gets me free croissants.

In short: if it moves, I can test it. If it fails, I can make it reliable. And if it’s already reliable — well, I’ll still write a paper about it.

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