Francesco Paolicelli
Senior Project Manager at FutureLab Brindisi
Apulia, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Paolicelli is a Senior Project Manager and seasoned open data and civic tech specialist with 12 years of experience guiding public administrations, universities, and cultural institutions across Italy. He has led national-level projects including long-term stewardship of dati.gov.it, managed OpenData programs for multiple municipalities (Matera, Lecce) and contributed to Matera2019’s digital strategy. As an educator he trains teachers, civil servants and master’s students in OpenData, OpenGov, coding and civic tech, blending pedagogical practice with hands-on platform delivery. Active in the open-source and volunteer space, he is a digital activist on OpenStreetMap, a Telegram developer, civic hacker, and a director-level member of Wikitalia and the OGP delegation. He brings rare cross-disciplinary experience that spans technical implementation, policy advising and community-driven mapping—often stepping into trenches as both developer and program manager. Based in Apulia with an engineering background from Politecnico di Bari, he’s known for turning open-data policy into operational portals and training programs that scale locally and nationally.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ingegneria, Ingegneria at Politecnico di Bari
Github Skills (81)
python10
metadata10
data-management10
data-gov10
publish10
gtfs10
iso10
commons10
catalog10
itil10
dms10
ckan10
api10
open-datasets10
strava-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
italia/design-ckan-theme
Oct 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 years
italiackanitalia-design-systemdesign-system
piersoft/ckan-docker
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Scripts and images to run CKAN using Docker Compose
Contributions:572 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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