Francesco Ceccon
Co-Founder at Airfoil
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Ceccon is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building open-source systems for low-latency data movement and trading. Based in London, he combines a PhD-level background in global optimization from Imperial College with hands-on engineering across backend and frontend stacks. He helped implement core Elixir/Phoenix backend features for Supabase Realtime—adding subscriber management and webhook connectors—and contributed React hooks and wallet integrations to StarkNet tooling. At Long Rock Capital he architected low-latency cryptocurrency trading infrastructure in Erlang and collaborated on quantitative strategy development. As founder of Airfoil he focuses on tools to collect, move, and share data, bridging research-grade algorithms with production systems. He’s equally comfortable refactoring critical backend services and shipping intuitive developer-facing UI features, reflecting a pragmatic blend of research rigor and product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science - Global Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science - Global Optimization at Imperial College LondonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Ferrara
English, Italian
Github Skills (22)
react-hooks10
postgresql10
elixir10
typescript10
nextjs10
phoenix-liveview10
phoenix-framework10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
apache-phoenix10
react10
website-development9
realtime9
hook9
cdc9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
apibara/starknet-react
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
A collection of React providers and hooks for StarkNet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:160 reviews, 229 commits, 473 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the front-end development of the StarkNet React library by implementing new hooks and features. They added documentation for the hooks, and also introduced an example for the next.js framework. They also worked on the UI by adding the copy button and other minor website fixes, as well as the integration of wallet connections.
reactethereumreact-hooksprovidershooks
supabase/realtime
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `realtime` repository, focusing on Elixir and Phoenix. Their work involved refactoring code, creating modules for managing subscribers and notifications, and integrating a configurable webhook connector. They also added configuration options related to replication slots and updated dependencies. These changes enhanced the system's functionality and configuration capabilities.
realtimephoenix-frameworkcrdtbackend-as-a-servicereal-time
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