Francesco Pessolano
CEO at Astrape Networks
Bonheiden, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrancesco Pessolano is a serial founder and CEO with 10+ years turning deep-tech ideas into market-ready products across IoT, AI, photonics and imaging. He currently leads Astrape Networks and co-founded Xetal while also running Fralke and earlier stealth ventures like Wotsuke, blending hands-on development in Go, Python, C++ and JavaScript with CEO-level strategy and fundraising. His background spans corporate R&D and start-up scale-up—from Philips and NXP to launching spin-offs—and he frequently mentors accelerator cohorts and university ventures on product-market fit and technical go-to-market. Known for bridging rigorous engineering (PhD-level research) with commercial execution (MBA in Strategy & Marketing), he often drills into both code and investor decks. A less obvious strength is his sustained role as an evaluator of European photonics/semiconductor projects, giving him rare visibility into regional technology trends and emerging IP opportunities. Based in Bonheiden, Belgium, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a pattern of creating teams and products that move from lab prototypes to deployed systems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo FerrarisPh.D. Mathematics Computer Science, Ph.D. Mathematics Computer Science at London South Bank UniversityMBA Strategy Marketing, MBA Strategy Marketing at Erasmus University RotterdamLaurea (cum Laude) Electronics Engineering Technology, Laurea (cum Laude) Electronics Engineering Technology at Università di Pisa
Japanese, English, Italian, Dutch
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Github Skills (79)
golang9
database9
key-value9
caching9
document-database9
levenshtein9
fifo9
ttl9
lru8
transactional8
python8
go8
gradient-descent7
numerics7
memory-allocation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xetal-nv/Python-API
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:28 releases, 196 pushes, 43 tags in 10 months
fpessolano/FantasyFootball
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 90 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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