My Resume

Francesco
Not

Engineer

Technologist

Hacker

Project Manager

Hello! I am Francesco, I design electronic products, hack hardware and firmware, and make sure nobody else can.
I rise to the challenge, and you?
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About Me
My story

I started pulling electronics apart before I knew how to put them back together, and I never really stopped. Over 25 years, I've built a practice that spans the full stack of embedded product development: from blank schematic to certified hardware, from bare-metal firmware to secure boot chains, from design review to factory floor. I've worked in startups where deadlines were yesterday and budgets were fictional, which taught me to deliver under pressure without cutting the wrong corners. Along the way, I developed a second discipline in hardware security, because understanding how devices break is the only honest way to build ones that don't. If you need someone who can own a product end-to-end and still get into the weeds when it matters, that's exactly what I do.

  • Age: 45
  • Residence: Italy - FVG
  • Freelance: Available
  • Address: 33020 - Cavazzo Carnico UD
  • Lab: Fully equipped
  • Travel: Available
Services
What I Do
Consulting

Strategic guidance on embedded systems architecture, security posture, and product development. From concept validation to manufacturing readiness, I help you avoid expensive mistakes.

Electronics
Engineering

End-to-end design of complex embedded systems. Mixed-signal PCB, multilayer and HDI layout, signal integrity, EMC compliance, Flex and Rigid-Flex. From schematic to certified product.

Hardware
Hacking

Offensive assessment of embedded devices: fault injection, side-channel analysis, bus snooping, and bypass techniques. I find the weaknesses before your adversaries do.

Reverse
Engineering

PCB reversing, schematic capture, manufacturign data recovery, firmware extraction, binary analysis. I rebuild a lost project from samples.

Advanced
Debugging

Low-level diagnosis on bare-metal, RTOS, and Embedded Linux. From logic analyzer to JTAG/SWD, from register-level tracing to custom Python instrumentation. I can find bugs others cannot.

Product
Management

From prototype to mass production. BOM optimization, supply chain, DFM, and time-to-market under real-world constraints. Budget-aware, deadline-driven.

Pricing
My Services
Consulting
€ 60 hour
  • Technologies
  • Product design
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Team selection
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Design
€ 65 hour
  • Schematic
  • PCB Layout
  • BSP/Firmware
  • Embedded Linux
  • Testing & Debugging
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Advanced
€ 85 hour
  • Security Assessment
  • Hardware Hacking
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Advanced Debugging
  • Product Management
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Design Skills
Making things
  • Digital Electronics

    MCU, MPU/APU and network chip-down designs, high-speed buses up to 5Gbps, Signal Integrity, Design for Testability

    90%
  • Analog Electronics

    microvolt circuitry, signal conditioning, high-precision, low-drift, RF up to 5GHz, mixed-signal designs, Spice simulations

    70%
  • Power Electronics

    AC/DC converters, DC/DC power supplies for digital and analog, low-power circuitry, Power Integrity analisys

    75%
  • Mechanical Design

    Thermal Simulations, 3D modeling, 3D printing, CAM prototyping

    50%
  • PCB Layout

    Mixed-signal, Multi-layer, HDI, Flex, Rigid-Flex, Chip-On-Board, Multi-board assemblies, Design for Manufacturing

    95%
  • MCU Firmware

    ASM and C from ST6 and 8051 8-bit, I've used almost all up to modern 32-bit Cortex-M with Trust Zone and Secure Elements, now on RISC-V

    75%
  • Embedded Linux

    BSPs, uboot and Yocto for modern MPUs, RPi, i.MX8, i.MX9, STM32MP2, Zynq

    70%
  • Software

    Python, C and shell scripting, used extensively for testing platforms and Proof-of-Concept demos

    50%
Cybersec Skills
Breaking things
  • Hardware hacking

    Tearing down PCBs, probing interfaces, bypassing protections and extracting what manufacturers didn't intend to expose.

    90%
  • Reverse engineering

    Reading schematics that don't exist, mapping unknown protocols, and reconstructing system logic and manufacturing data.

    80%
  • Advanced debugging

    Low-level fault analysis, post-mortem investigations, forensic analisys, sporadic errors and race conditions buried in bare-metal code.

    90%
  • Data extraction

    flash dumping (UART, SPI, JTAG), side-channel attacks, and fault injection. From passive sniffing to active glitching.

    70%
  • Firmware analisys

    White-box and black-box assessment. Static analysis, disassembly, decompilation, and fuzz testing. From source audits to stripped binaries.

    75%
  • Penetration testing

    End-to-end attack surface assessment on embedded systems: from physical access to firmware to network stack. Hardware-first methodology.

    75%
Soft Skills
High potential
  • 100%
    Problem solving

    I've been called 'Mr. Wolf' of electronic development. Simply put, I solve problems - period.

  • 70%
    Project Management

    Fully trained and battle-tested Project Manager and Scrum Master.

  • 80%
    Lateral Thinking

    Always trying to look form a different point of view and find alternative paths.

  • 90%
    Creativity

    I'm a maker by heart and hacker down to the bone.

  • 85%
    Work under pressure

    Can't remember a relaxed schedule in over 25 years, that's how it works in engineering.

  • 20%
    Tolerance to assholes

    I've had enough toxic people in my life. Nobody's forcing us to work together if we don't like each other.

Language Skills
International interactions
  • Furlàn

    Mothertongue, bilingual

    100%
  • Italiano

    Mothertongue, bilingual

    100%
  • English

    C1/C2 Proficiency, fully fluent for professional and casual conversations

    80%
  • German

    A2 Elementary, read and listen professional topics, communicate in routine tasks

    30%
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Francesco Not
Engineering Consultant
  • Age: 45
  • Residence: Italy
  • Freelance: Available
  • Address: via Lobbia 3, Mena
    33020 Cavazzo Carnico UD
  • Phone: +39 338 85 46 45 Four
  • E-mail: contactATfrancesconotDOTit
Francesco Not