Summary
Francesco Belladonna is a lead developer and system architect with 13 years of experience building scalable, maintainable web platforms from Vancouver. He specializes in backend, distributed systems and relational databases, leading design sessions and setting engineering standards that preserved performance at peak load. At Jane Technologies he drove 30+ performance improvements that enabled a 2x customer scale without UX degradation, and previously halved storefront DB load through targeted optimizations. A hands-on mentor, he consistently promotes engineers into senior and lead roles while improving test coverage, deployment pipelines, and developer processes. His background spans SaaS growth problems—real-time reporting, API integrations and email deliverability tooling—and long-lived production systems for nonprofits, showing a blend of startup velocity and operational durability. He pairs practical engineering with a knack for spotting low-overhead fixes that deliver outsized business impact.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Game Development, Game Development at AIV - Accademia Italiana Videogiochi
Computer Science, Computer Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English