Summary
Francesco Leacche is a Technical Program Manager based in Rome with 12 years of experience bridging machine learning, robotics, and full-stack software engineering. He progressed from hands-on ML and C++ development to tech lead and program management roles at Duality Robotics, pairing product delivery with team leadership. As a former CTO and co-founder he led a nine-person team to build patented hardware-software solutions and automated 3D modeling pipelines for orthopedic applications. His background includes teaching game programming and academic research on real-time video streaming for underwater sensors, reflecting a rare mix of applied research and practical productization. Fluent across Python, C++, Qt and Django stacks, he excels at turning complex algorithms and RGB-D sensor data into production-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical strategist who equally values clean code, reproducible research, and scalable delivery.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
InnovAction Lab
Bachelor's degree, Informatica, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Informatica, 110/110 cum laude at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English