Francesco R
Principal Engineer, Manager at Financial Times
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco R is a Principal Engineer and engineering leader with 20+ years in building and operating large-scale, distributed consumer and enterprise services across media, security, payments and government platforms. He blends deep hands-on systems experience—from stream processing and storage to SRE and platform APIs—with senior leadership in scaling engineering organisations, hiring, and product-first team design. At organisations including Amazon, BBC, PagoPA and Financial Times he has shipped high-availability systems (eg. sub-second alerting at 99.9999% availability) and driven cross-functional programmes around data classification, security and launch quality. A pragmatic advocate of Conway’s Law, Scrum, and data-driven decisions, he pairs technical judgement with organisational design to shape how teams deliver customer value. Notably, he has moved from individual contributor to director-level roles while still leading technically complex initiatives like automated reasoning for Prime Video and pan-company onboarding platforms at PagoPA. Based in Italy, he combines an Oxford executive leadership pedigree with a systems engineering MEng and a knack for turning operational pain points into resilient, scalable products.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Oxford Executive Leadership Programme Organizational Leadership, Oxford Executive Leadership Programme Organizational Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordMaster of Engineering - MEng Complex Adaptive Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng Complex Adaptive Systems at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Italian, English
Github Skills (33)
dice10
telegram-bot9
informatica9
python7
relational-algebra6
telegram6
code-golf6
apl6
euler6
macros6
esoteric-programming-language5
gleam5
esoteric-language4
azerothcore3
twine3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
puma0x61/TPS-dice-roller-bot
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
A telegram bot to roll dice (and probably other things) - now hacktoberfest friendly!
Contributions:96 commits, 47 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 7 months
telegram-botpythonrpg-dice-rollertelegram-botsbot
PumaConcolor/esolangs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Examples and implementations of esoteric programming languages
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
code-golfimplementationsaplmacrosgleam
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