Summary
Francesco Face is a seasoned software development manager based in Rome with over a decade of professional experience and more than 20 years in engineering roles overall, progressing from hands-on developer to team lead and now managing development at Hootsuite. He excels at leading cross-functional teams, shipping backend systems, and scaling product engineering processes across startups and established companies like AdEspresso and DOING. As a former founder/owner of Noah S.r.l., he brings entrepreneurial judgment and practical delivery focus to organizational leadership. Known for combining deep backend expertise with people-first management, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance technical debt with feature velocity. Despite a long career, he maintains a developer’s mindset grounded in early full-stack experience and continuous on-the-job learning.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High school qualification in, Computer science, High school qualification in, Computer science at I.T.I.S. G. Vallauri
English, Italian