Francesco Pretelli
Engineering Manager at Timelabs Ltd
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolFrancesco Pretelli is an engineering manager and founder with 12+ years of hands-on and leadership experience spanning embedded firmware to consumer mobile apps and global product launches. Currently leading cross-functional teams at Mercari, he shipped a greenfield global app in six months and is driving an AI-native engineering transformation that rethinks team structure, workflows, and tooling. He founded Timelabs, where he independently designs, builds, and markets native Apple apps (iOS/iPadOS/macOS/VisionOS), keeping him deeply connected to shipping realities and platform-level decisions. Earlier roles include full rewrites and greenfield builds at Xero and technical leadership across startups and hardware-connected products, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and modern mobile architecture. Based in Tokyo, he pairs pragmatic engineering standards with a product-first mindset, and still finds time each week for pizza, F1, and indie game sessions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanAeronautic, Aeronautic at G. D'Annunzio
English, Italian, French
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Github Skills (83)
realtime10
apple-tv10
realm10
timezone10
swift10
database10
sqlite10
realm-database10
cloudkit10
ios10
json-response9
objective-c9
logging9
mobile9
nsdate8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
timefrancesco/cbr-converter
Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
timefrancesco/bitfolio
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:55 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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