Carmine Piparo

Sustainability Engineer


Uppsala, Sweden LinkedIn

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Experience

From the energy transition in Iberia to carbon accounting systems in Sweden.

  1. Normative.io

    2021–Present

    Stockholm County, SwedenCarbon accounting platform for enterprise emissions and supply-chain data.

    1. Sustainability Engineer (IC3)

      May 2023 – Present

      Full-time · Remote

      Design and development of the systems and methodologies behind carbon accounting and Life Cycle Assessment, with scope that has widened from implementation into ownership across sustainability data, calculations and cross-team initiatives.

      • Systems design for carbon accounting & LCA
      • Cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product and sustainability
      • Audit support & data reliability — calculations that stay defensible under scrutiny
      • End-to-end ownership of features and improvements
      • Systems design
      • LCA
      • Audit support
      • Methodology
    2. Sustainability Engineer (IC2)

      Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

      Full-time · Hybrid

      Implementation across data, calculations and sustainability product features, and the stretch where sustainability requirements started translating reliably into engineering systems.

      • Carbon accounting implementation
      • Sustainability data & LCA workflows
      • Increasing technical ownership and autonomy
      • Python
      • SQL
      • Calculations
    3. Sustainability Engineer (IC1)

      Aug 2021 – Mar 2022

      Full-time · Hybrid

      Arrived with the sustainability and engineering background and built the technical foundation to work in a product environment: a deliberate move from domain expertise to hands-on engineering inside carbon accounting systems.

      • Developed coding proficiency in Python, Pandas and SQL
      • Applied them to sustainability data, calculations and early product features
      • Python
      • Pandas
      • SQL
  2. InnoEnergy

    2018–2020

    Lisbon, PortugalEurope's largest business accelerator for sustainable energy.

    1. Junior Business Developer

      Nov 2018 – Jan 2020

      Full-time

      Part of the Iberian sales team, bridging the gap between external companies and InnoEnergy assets, and building connections with investors and future partners.

      • Created and ran “Let's Talk Energy”, an event on the Portuguese National Plan for Energy and Climate and the role of innovation in the energy transition — it led to active cooperation between InnoEnergy, the EIB and EY in Portugal.
      • Co-organised “The Reverse Pitch”, a closed-door open-innovation event where companies pitched their problems to start-ups I personally selected. Resulting proposals represented potential deals worth over €270k.
      • Business development
      • Energy transition
      • Events
  3. InnoEnergy · Workshop

    2017

    Tavira, Portugal

    1. Lead — “How could your smart and auto-sufficient house look like?”

      Apr 2017

      Workshop

      Introduced the smart-house concept and gave participants concrete, practical measures to cut household energy consumption. Delivered with the Portuguese energy cooperative Coopérnico and seven fellow EIT InnoEnergy master's students.

      • Energy efficiency
      • Facilitation
  4. CATÓLICA-LISBON Executive Education

    2016

    Lisbon, Portugal

    1. Entrepreneur in a Week: From Dawn to Pitch

      Sep 2016

      Programme

      Our group project was selected as one of the two best feasible projects out of ten in the final pitch competition — a microturbine for non-motorised boats, generating electricity for GPS units, phones and fish finders.

      • Entrepreneurship
      • Pitch
  5. InnoEnergy · Grand Challenge

    2015–2016

    Stockholm, SwedenBest Project Proposal Competition 2015.

    1. Winning team — Faroe Islands energy system design

      Oct 2015 – Jan 2016

      Competition

      Energy-system analysis and sustainable energy system design for the Faroe Islands. Member of the winning KTH team, judged by Jardfeingi (the customer), SWECO, and KTH–UPC on technical validity, customer acceptance and overall feasibility.

      • Energy systems
      • Award

Education

A chemical engineering foundation, redirected into energy systems and climate.

  1. Energy, Environment and Natural Resources LawUppsala, Sweden

    • Energy and Environment · Wind Resources · Wind Power Basics
  2. Sustainability StudiesKarlskrona, Sweden

    • Foundations of Strategic Sustainable Development
  3. Hermods AB

    2020–2021

    SFI C3 — Swedish Language and LiteratureSweden

  4. M.Eng. Sustainable Energy Systems & Energy ManagementLisbon, Portugal17/20

    • Second year of the MSc SELECT double-degree programme
  5. MSc SELECT — Environomical Pathways for Sustainable Energy SystemsStockholm, Sweden17/20

    • EIT-InnoEnergy double-degree master in Energy Engineering and Management
    • Joint first year across KTH Stockholm and UPC Barcelona
  6. Politecnico di Torino

    2014–2015

    Chemical Engineering TechnologyTurin, Italy

    • Chemical process development, industrial chemistry and process simulation, chemical and electrochemical reactors, transport phenomena and CFD, chemical plants, catalysis for energy and the environment
  7. BSc Chemical and Process EngineeringL'Aquila, Italy99/110

    • Professionalising track: the cycle of materials and energy in eco-compatible systems

    Thesis: L'uso delle turbine a gas nella sezione di conversione degli impianti solari a concentrazione — gas turbines in the conversion section of concentrated solar power plants

    1. Erasmus — Chemical EngineeringPardubice, Czech Republic

      • Organic chemistry, technology and synthesis; air and water pollution control; membrane processes; safety engineering; industrial toxicology

Skills

Data & Engineering

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Pandas
  • Data Engineering

Sustainability

  • Carbon Accounting
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Sustainability Data
  • Emissions Methodology

Ways of working

  • Systems Design
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Audit Support

Languages

  • Italian Native
  • English Native / bilingual
  • Portuguese Full professional
  • Spanish Limited working
  • Swedish Limited working
  • Czech Elementary
  • French Elementary

Certifications

  • Iberdrola Challenge 2017 InnoEnergy2017
  • CommUnity Representatives InnoEnergy2017
  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python edX
  • IELTS Academic English 7.5 (C1) British Council2015
  • A2 Czech Czech Technical University in Prague2011