Antonino Grasso

For a leading robotics manufacturer's CTO Office — intent-based robotics R&D, embedded AI, multi-agent orchestration.

• Solo engineer on a physical-AI R&D platform — translating ambiguous CTO-Office briefs into working prototypes, architecture proposals, and platform-evolution decisions
• Built a working multi-agent orchestration prototype running on NVIDIA Jetson — evaluated LangGraph and Microsoft Agent Framework hands-on, picked direction, prototyped on-device inference (vLLM, quantization) and error-tolerant task execution
• Currently building ROS2-MCP interop — bridging the robotics-engineering side of the platform with the agentic orchestration layer; hands-on across MCP servers, embedded runtimes, and agent observability
• Authored an 80-page internal whitepaper that drove platform-evolution decisions — selected which components advance to next-stage research, which architectural directions the platform takes

Cloud-native SaaS — collaborative engineering platform on AWS, shipped to 10+ enterprise tenants.

• Designed and shipped the token-based licensing system end-to-end — product requirements, database schemas and Flyway migrations, observability instrumentation, and dev/stage/prod rollout. Live with 10+ enterprise tenants.
• Built the add-on management feature (S3 upload, association, lifecycle state changes, deletion) and integrated cloud-based software licensing — both demoed live at Automatica 2025 and shipped in the October 2025 release
• Owned platform-wide observability — instrumented backend services with OpenTelemetry, set up tracing and metrics, built the local observability stack used across both dev teams
• Worked across backend, AWS infrastructure (AppStream, ECS), and DevOps — generalist scope on a 3–5 engineer team, one of two delivery teams in a ~20-person product org
• Collaborated closely with PMs, POs, and Go-to-Market on prioritization and product direction; represented the product at Automatica 2025 with live customer demos

Dual study programme — alternating university semesters and full-time engineering rotations across IoT projects.

• Designed an AWS Cognito-based auth/authz system for an IoT product line — shipped during the dual-study period and still running in production today
• Rotated across HVAC, access control, and green-energy IoT projects — built early breadth across production distributed systems, end-to-end lifecycle exposure (architecture → engineering → operations), and fast onboarding into unfamiliar contexts