Federico Facca
Head Of Platform Engineering
Minusio, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFederico Facca is a seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of experience who currently heads Platform Engineering at Zaphiro, driving the transformation of a monolith into a cloud-native, event-driven microservices platform. He blends hands-on architecture and team leadership—overseeing requirements, presales, tech strategy, and staff growth—while translating complex technical concepts for business stakeholders. His background spans R&D and product roles, including CTO of Martel Innovate and senior research leadership, where he secured multi-million euro R&D funding and shaped Smart City and IoT platforms. Federico is comfortable at the intersection of research and production, having managed large research teams and industrial partnerships with organizations like Telefonica and FIWARE. He is pragmatic about observability, DevOps and scalability, and known for selecting cutting-edge technologies to turn smart grid data into business value. Based in Ticino, Switzerland, he pairs a PhD-level research mindset with proven delivery in commercial and European-funded projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Information Technology, Ph.D Information Technology at Politecnico di MilanoComputer Science, Computer Science at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
geodata10
schema10
replica-set10
schema-validation10
openid-connect10
switcher10
prometheus10
wac10
data-models10
keycloak10
fiware10
visualization10
operation10
python10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
orchestracities/charts
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
This project includes helm charts developed to deploy orchestra cities (thus covering as well some FIWARE services)
Contributions:6 reviews, 95 commits, 147 PRs in 3 years 6 months
chartsfiwarehelmhelm-chartorchestra
smartsdk/dataModels
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
This repository contains code and specifications to support harmonized data models developed by FIWARE
Contributions:210 commits, 31 PRs, 262 pushes in 1 year 7 months
fiwarespecificationdata-modelsspecificationsharmonized-data
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