Francesco Canessa
Technical Lead at UBQ SA
Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarFrancesco Canessa is a hands-on Technical Lead and former CTO with 17 years of software experience and a nine-year focus on full‑stack blockchain engineering. He combines deep backend expertise in Ruby/Roda/Sequel with modern Web3 stacks (NodeJS/TypeScript, Solidity, EVM and non‑EVM chains) and operational strength in DevOps, GCP and Terraform to ship production-grade, payment and wallet backends. He’s led and scaled engineering teams from small cores to 60+ developers while remaining a frequent contributor to core code and architectures, including private blockchain platforms (Quorum/Besu/Tessera) and high-throughput trading systems. Based in Geneva, he also bridges P2P and Bitcoin Lightning work with app-facing React/React Native and mobile experience, and has a practical streak shown by UI improvements to an Ethereum block explorer. That blend of day-to-day coding, ops ownership and strategic technical roadmapping makes him a pragmatic leader for complex distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html10
css9
model-view-controller9
ssh9
web3js7
ruby-on-rails6
backbonejs6
iphone6
rest6
github6
ssh-keys6
ruby6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
etherparty/explorer
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
A lightweight ethereum block explorer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the user interface of the Etherparty block explorer. They fixed links, updated the year in the footer, and added a link to the latest block on the homepage. The user also added a transactions list to the block information view. These changes focused on enhancing the user experience and providing better access to blockchain data.
ethereum
makevoid/openpilot
Sep 2019 - Jun 2026
open source driving agent
Contributions:97 pushes, 31 branches in 6 years 10 months
drivingmachine-learningagent
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