Francesco Serra
VP Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancesco Serra is a VP Senior Lead Software Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience crafting robust back-end systems and promoting software engineering craftsmanship with a strong interest in functional programming. He has progressed through roles at major firms including YOOX NET‑A‑PORTER, Expedia, Medidata and now JPMorgan Chase, blending hands‑on Scala development with technical leadership. Francesco contributes to the well-regarded http4s Scala HTTP library, improving test reliability around timeouts, throttling and routing — a signal of his focus on correctness and resilient distributed systems. He brings breadth from early Unix/Perl and front-end work to modern backend architectures, often surfacing latent reliability issues through disciplined refactoring and testing. Known for turning complex edge cases into maintainable code, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a craftsperson’s attention to detail.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Padova
Github Skills (8)
scala10
cat10
testing10
http9
fs9
http-server8
http-client8
top-level8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 48 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on refactoring and improving the existing test suites within the http4s project. Their contributions involved fixing and refactoring tests related to timeout, throttling, and retry mechanisms. Furthermore, they added and enhanced tests for response timing and path merging functionalities. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving the reliability and correctness of the http4s library through comprehensive testing.
idiomatichttp-clientscalafs2typelevel
FrancescoSerra/http4s
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
idiomatichttp-clientscalahttp-server
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