mirko@cv:~$ whoami

Mirko Calvi — Software Engineer, Edge AI Engineer, Robotics

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Software Engineer specializing in Edge AI, Embedded Systems, and Robotics. Cofounder of Zant, a high-performance inference engine for microcontrollers. Proven track record of securing venture capital (€170k Seed Round), shipping cross-platform SaaS products, and building global developer communities. Expert in optimizing neural networks (ONNX) for constrained hardware.

mirko@cv:~$ cat experience.txt

Zant s.r.l. — CTO & Cofounder

Jun 2025 – Apr 2026 · Milan

  • Raised €170k seed round; followed 3 pilot contracts; collaborated with Arduino. Operations dissolved due to strategic misalignment; open-source project remains active.
  • Developed Zant SDK: high-performance ONNX inference engine for ARM Cortex-M; custom memory allocator + quantization pipeline; 15% improvement on peak memory usage on CNN vs TFLM.
  • Architected Mathpilot.ai: cross-platform B2B SaaS for AI-driven STEM correction; 100+ users.
  • Smart Retail Analytics: CV system for real-time crowd analysis and age estimation; delivered insights to 2 clients.

Zant Foundation — Founder & Lead Developer

Jun 2024 – present · worldwide

  • Created Zant, a Zig-based open-source inference engine for ONNX neural networks on microcontrollers.
  • 375+ GitHub stars, 48 forks, 30+ contributors. Adopted by 15 PoliMi master's students; 5 continued post-graduation.
  • Referenced in 2 academic papers on Edge AI performance (INT8 quantization, memory-latency tradeoffs).
  • Speaker at LinuxDay and ZigDays. Lead Coordinator of TinyHack (50+ participants).

AIRLAB — FRE Competition Robotic Engineer

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · Milan

  • Led 4-person team building an autonomous agricultural robot for the FRE competition.
  • SLAM (gmapping) + ROS 2 Nav 2 + sensor fusion (LiDAR + depth camera) on NVIDIA Jetson Orin with CUDA, 58 fps.
  • Tuned DWB controller and BT recovery behaviors; achieved 94% row-following accuracy at 15 km/h.

Bitpolimi — Associate Member & Event Organizer

Polytechnic University of Milan

  • Cofounded a student organization focused on Bitcoin open-source development and education.
  • Organized technical events and a university course on Bitcoin technology with international speakers.

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Polytechnic University of Milan — MSc Computer Science & Engineering

Mar 2024 – Dec 2025 · Milan

Specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Computing Architectures.

Malmö University — Erasmus

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · Malmö

In-depth study of Edge AI and IoT. Opened communication channels between Zant Foundation and Arduino S.r.l.

Polytechnic University of Milan — BSc Computer Science & Engineering

Sep 2020 – Mar 2024 · Milan

mirko@cv:~$ cat skills.txt

Languages
C, C++, Zig, Python, Go, Dart, React, TypeScript, JS, Java, iOS development, OOP
Embedded & Edge AI
ARM Cortex-M, STM32, FreeRTOS, JTAG/SWD, TFLM, model quantization (post-training), inference on constrained hardware
Machine Learning & AI
PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, prompt engineering, LangChain, LLM tooling (Claude CLI)
Robotics & CV
ROS, ROS 2, OpenCV, SLAM (gmapping), Nav2, LiDAR (Velodyne, RPLiDAR), depth cameras, sensor fusion, Gazebo
Infrastructure
Docker, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, GCP, Git, pytest
OS
Linux (Ubuntu), FreeRTOS, Windows

mirko@cv:~$ cat publications.txt

Calvi, M. — Zant: lightweight neural network inference engine for microcontrollers. Master's Thesis, Politecnico di Milano. politesi.polimi.it ↗

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[ projects ] [ about-me ] [ github ↗ ] [ linkedin ↗ ] [ email ↗ ]

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