Francesco Virga
Founding Engineer at inference.net
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrancesco Virga is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building backend systems, scalable cloud architectures, and AI-infused products. He co-founded Bounce (CTO), scaling it to 100k+ users and millions in transactions while architecting TypeScript-based backends, Kubernetes deployments, and multi-cloud DevOps. More recently he led engineering for AI-driven financial products and now focuses on LLM infrastructure and inference at inference.net and Context Labs. Trained in Engineering Physics and Computing at Queen’s University, he blends rigorous computational thinking with product instincts from early-stage startups and fundraising. Notably, he has deep hands-on experience hiring and mentoring teams, running workshops on containerization, and even provisioning supercomputer VMs as an intern—evidence of both technical depth and operational trust.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics and Computing, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics and Computing at Queen's University
English, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
visual-studio10
bundler10
transpiler10
jsx10
redis-client10
github-app10
nodejs10
package-manager10
mongodb10
llm10
orm10
odm10
redis-sentinel10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
francescov1/facebook-event-scraper
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A slim module for scraping Facebook event data in milliseconds.
Contributions:20 PRs, 55 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 11 months
francescov1/node-boilerplate-script
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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