Francesco Lana
Sr. Global Black Belt - Developer Productivity at Microsoft
Gorgonzola, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Lana is a Senior Global Black Belt for Developer Productivity at Microsoft with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native applications and developer tooling across Europe. He progressed through roles from intern to architect and technical specialist, bringing deep Azure and app innovation expertise to developer enablement and customer-facing technical strategy. Before returning to Microsoft, he helped found TeiaCare and led architecture and product development for Ancelia, an IoT-driven remote monitoring platform, giving him rare end-to-end IoT and clinical-tech product experience. Based in Gorgonzola, Italy, Francesco combines pragmatic engineering (C#, .NET, cloud architectures) with customer advocacy to accelerate developer velocity at scale. He’s known for translating complex architectures into actionable adoption playbooks and has a track record of speaking and mentoring since his early Microsoft student-program days. Outside work, his blend of startup CTO experience and global field roles suggests a knack for aligning product, ops, and developer communities to ship measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informatica Informatica, Informatica Informatica at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Italian, English
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Github Skills (36)
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
garden10
asyncio10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
custom-component9
platformio9
esp82669
yaml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Frank802/drone
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
microsoft/copilot-metrics-dashboard
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
The GitHub Copilot Metrics Dashboard is a solution accelerator designed to visualize metrics from GitHub Copilot using the GitHub Copilot Metrics API and GitHub Copilot User Management API.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 19 PRs in 5 months
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