Andrea Francia
Software Engineer at SIGEMI Srl
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Francia is a seasoned Software Engineer with 15 years of experience based in Milan, specializing in Test Driven Development and mentoring teams to adopt pragmatic, maintainable practices. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems—introducing OOP, SRP/OCP, automated tests and SSO integrations for healthcare platforms—and shipping full-stack features across web and mobile. A pragmatic polyglot, his background spans Python, PHP, C#, Ruby on Rails and iOS, with hands-on experience in scientific and geospatial software for ESA projects. Founder of the long-lived open-source trash-cli utility (packaged in major Linux distributions), he brings real-world OSS maintenance experience and a focus on improving test coverage and robustness. Colleagues know him as a steady coach who combines practical engineering with design simplicity to make complex migrations and legacy evolutions predictable.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Perito Informatico, Programmazione, Perito Informatico, Programmazione at ITIS G CardanoXP Conference 2014Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science,, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, at Università degli Studi di Pavia
Italian, English
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Github Skills (17)
python10
unit-test10
test-automation10
testing9
refactor9
bash9
refactoring9
version-control8
git8
shell6
vim6
fabric6
expression6
unified-diffs6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andreafrancia/trash-cli
Nov 2011 - Dec 2022
Command line interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 1501 commits, 90 PRs in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on refactoring and improving the test coverage for the `trash-cli` project. Their commits involved refactoring existing code and increasing test coverage for the `restore` command. The user made changes to tests within the `unit_tests` directory and enhanced the project's robustness by extending test coverage. They also updated the test to reflect changes in the project, ensuring the tests still performed correctly.
pythoncommand-line-interfacelinuxtrashcancommand-line
andreafrancia/fortran-how-to
Dec 2012 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
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