Francesco Cavaliere
Lead Software Engineer at FICO
Padua, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Cavaliere is a Lead Software Engineer at FICO with eight years of experience blending production engineering and academic research in operations research and combinatorial optimization. He completed a PhD at the University of Bologna focused on exact and heuristic algorithms and augmented his research perspective with a visiting stint at Polytechnique Montréal and postdoctoral work at the University of Padua. His background in computer engineering (Master’s with 110 cum laude) and international exchange in Gent reinforce a strong practical foundation in systems and algorithm design. Francesco bridges rigorous algorithmic thinking with real-world software delivery, bringing research-grade optimization methods into scalable applications. He is based in Padua, Italy, and maintains a Github presence (c4v4) that reflects his ongoing interest in reproducible, research-driven code.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Operations Research, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Operations Research at Polytechnique MontréalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di BolognaMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, 110 cum laude, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di PadovaLiceo Scientifico "G.B. Quadri"Erasmus Exchange, Computer Engineering, Erasmus Exchange, Computer Engineering at Universiteit Gent
Github Skills (27)
multiplatform10
formatting10
chrono10
formatter10
ranges10
cross-platform10
printf10
unicode10
floating-point10
rust10
cpp10
operations-research9
combinatorial-optimization9
vehicle-routing-problem9
simulated-annealing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
c4v4/cft
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Implementation of the Caprara, Fischetti, and Toth algorithm for the Set Covering problem.
Contributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 6 PRs in 10 months
c4v4/LKH-SP
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 1 push in 3 months
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