Summary
Francesco Gianni is an Associate Professor and seasoned IoT and software engineer with over a decade of experience designing, manufacturing and deploying embedded devices and distributed backend systems for smart home, industrial and research contexts. He combines low-level expertise with ESP/nRF platforms, RF and industrial protocols (Modbus/RS-485) with cloud-native API and data-pipeline skills using Rust, Ruby, Python, Docker and AWS. Francesco has built high-traffic web services, serverless payment integrations and data-collection/analysis workflows that feed statistical R applications and Grafana visualizations. As co-creator of the Tiles IoT Inventor Toolkit he has led 30+ creative workshops involving 500+ users and earned MIT support for educational activities linking ideation to micro:bit prototyping. Active in open source across Rust, Rails, OpenWRT, Tasmota and ESPHome, he blends academic research in ubiquitous computing with hands-on product and startup experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Master Degree, Computer science engineering, Master Degree, Computer science engineering at Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Maturità scientifica, Maturità scientifica at Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico - Einstein, Vimercate
Robotics, Bioinformatic, Finite-state automata, Robotics, Bioinformatic, Finite-state automata at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
English, Spanish, Norwegian, Italian