Francesco Stasi
Software Engineer at Datadog
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Stasi is a software engineer and team leader with 10+ years building polished front-ends and developer tools, currently contributing to Datadog from Turin. He led Arduino’s Software Tools team, shaping the IDE and CLI used by millions while co-creating an open-source React component library and hands-on improving the Arduino IDE UX and settings. Francesco combines product-focused architecture with people-first leadership, tuning Scrum processes, running stakeholder feedback loops, and introducing cross-team knowledge rituals like bi-weekly "Happy Hour" sessions. His background spans startups to automotive R&D, where he shipped HTML5-based infotainment UIs for millions of cars and boosted front-end performance significantly. Known for pragmatic, data-informed decisions, he balances coding mastery in JavaScript/TypeScript with mentoring and community-driven open-source work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/arduino-ide
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Arduino IDE 2.x
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 64 commits, 122 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on improving the user interface and settings within the Arduino IDE. Their work included moving settings from the sidebar to the preference panel, implementing quick suggestion toggles, and adding support for toggled states in the toolbar items, along with fixing hover states. They also modified the main CSS to reflect the new toolbar changes and included keymaps customization support. Finally, they integrated the settings panel to accurately reflect the application's current state.
2-xarduino-ideidearduino
arduino/arc
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
arduino-react-compontents
Contributions:11 reviews, 79 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
reactarduino
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