Francesco Capano
Staff Tech Lead Manager at EditThisCookie
City of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Capano is a Staff Tech Lead Manager based in the City of London with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across embedded, low-latency C++ systems and consumer-facing front-end products. He currently leads technical delivery and people development at Yoto after a progression from senior engineer to staff manager, and previously contributed to real-time trading systems at Cboe and Goldman Sachs as well as embedded wearable platforms at TomTom. He is the creator and long-term maintainer of EditThisCookie, a widely used Chrome extension with over 3 million users and community translations in 35 languages, demonstrating a blend of product ownership and hands-on UI work. Comfortable shipping across stack boundaries, he pairs systems-level rigor from finance and embedded domains with pragmatic UX improvements informed by his open-source work. Colleagues describe him as a technical manager who still writes production code and shapes product direction through small, high-impact contributions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Italian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
184reputation
20kreached
4answers
5questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
chrome-extension10
html10
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-experience8
ux-design8
maps6
opengl-es6
google-chrome-extension6
google-chrome6
android6
android-canvas6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ETCExtensions/Edit-This-Cookie
Oct 2012 - Nov 2018
EditThisCookie is the famous Google Chrome/Chromium extension for editing cookies
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 119 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the user experience for the "EditThisCookie" Chrome extension. Their work included modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to change links, add icons, update donation statuses, and refactor the interface. They were responsible for adapting the popup to different languages by making some fixes and also adding options for the user to customize how the UI looks like.
javascriptchromium-extensionchromechromiumgoogle-chrome
fcapano/UnisaConnect
May 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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