Francesco Chemolli
Senior Engineering Manager - Edge Platform
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancesco Chemolli is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building global edge infrastructure and secure, reliable systems, currently leading Edge Platform engineering at Cloudflare. He combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by long-term volunteer contributions and core refactors to the widely used Squid web proxy—with large-scale production SRE and incident management experience from Meta/Facebook. Francesco has a track record of growing and coaching teams, bootstrapping multiple production engineering organizations, and delivering measurable reliability and cost improvements across ads, e‑commerce, and fraud domains. He pairs deep systems and security roots from banking and network security roles with practical product-facing engineering, having shipped IoT fleet software at Facebook and run release and CI infrastructure for Squid. As Vice President of the Squid Software Foundation he bridges open-source communities, sponsorships, and project infrastructure—an unusual blend of nonprofit stewardship and hyperscale platform leadership. Based in the UK and fluent in both low-level system work and cross-functional program management, he thrives on improving core internet infrastructure that most users never see.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoMaturita` Classica Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Maturita` Classica Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics at Liceo Classico Prati, Trento
Italian, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
refactor10
performance-optimization8
architectures7
architecture7
lua6
jenkins6
proxy6
makefile6
squid6
sed6
jenkins-plugin6
enums6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
squid-cache/squid
Jun 2008 - Jan 2023
Squid Web Proxy Cache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:246 releases, 1353 reviews, 1709 commits in 14 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Francesco's commits focused on refactoring the code, specifically removing redundant keywords and improving code clarity. The changes impacted various core files and structures related to the Squid web proxy cache. The commits involved modifications in communication handling and internal structures. The user's primary work involved the project's core infrastructure.
proxycache-proxyweb-proxycacheicap
kinkie/iptsim
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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