Francesca Schicchera
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFrancesca Schicchera is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with a long IT career rooted in polyglot back-end development, technical leadership, and engineering management. She brings deep hands-on experience shipping backend and DevOps work at Elastic, contributing to widely used projects like Metricbeat/Filebeat and tackling complex AWS integrations and S3/SQS edge cases. Her open-source contributions include improving reliability and test coverage for storage- and monitoring-focused projects such as scrutiny and transfer.sh, showing a pragmatic focus on tooling and resilience. Francesca excels at bridging day-to-day engineering with architectural thinking, having progressed from backend developer through team lead roles to principal engineer. Colleagues rely on her to refactor legacy systems, harden integrations, and implement robust configuration-driven behavior. With a background starting in the early 2000s and a classical arts education, she brings a curious, multidisciplinary perspective to technical problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Classico "B. Cairoli"
English, Italian
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Github Skills (29)
filesystem10
metricbeat10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
testing10
filebeat10
go10
api10
aws10
amazon-s310
go-gin10
aws-s310
g10
backend10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dutchcoders/transfer.sh
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 144 reviews, 261 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Francesca contributed to the GDrive provider support, adding new functionalities and improving the existing code base. Their work included implementing support for GDrive, enhancing basedir ownership, and fixing related mimetype issues. The user's commits involved modifications to dataset.go. The user also fixed fragment and query separators not escaped, added a timeout reader wrapper for big uploads and implemented DELETE functionalities in the project.
golangfile-sharingsharingdockertransfersh
elastic/beats
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:250 reviews, 31 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Francesca contributed to the Metricbeat and Filebeat projects, primarily focusing on the AWS ecosystem. Their work included adding support for features like the Airflow module and web identity providers. Additionally, the user modified various aspects of the S3 input, including handling errors, file selection, and optimizing object processing, along with fixing SQS and AWS Cloudwatch issues. Furthermore, the user worked on increasing timeouts, and adding support for JSON/NDJSON content types.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
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