Francesco Zanini
Principal Software Engineer & Co-Founder
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Zanini is a creative, full-spectrum software engineer with 12 years of experience building systems that stretch from embedded firmware and IoT devices to scalable enterprise and AI-enabled SaaS platforms. He has repeatedly turned complex legacy flows into lean, high-performance services—shipping a factory AI inspection pipeline that reduced QC from hours to under a minute and an automation platform serving 500+ customers with self-healing recovery. Comfortable leading technical due diligence and product discovery, he blends hands-on engineering (edge devices, vector search, event-driven architectures) with pragmatic business sense, having founded a SaaS and pivoted to consulting to accelerate outcomes. A proactive mentor and recruiter, he’s run tribe-wide training programs and interviewed hundreds of candidates to raise engineering standards. Based in Munich, he pairs deep curiosity for new technologies with a focus on elegant, user-centered solutions and measurable impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Università di Trento
Italian, English
Github Skills (200)
nix10
alpine-linux10
javascript10
nixos10
linux10
json10
amd10
commonjs10
nixpkgs10
webpack10
synology9
provisioning9
varnish9
planet9
babashka9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zaninime/dockerfiles
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 53 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 11 months
zaninime/planet-manager
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Customize your Planet lamps with ease.
Contributions:2 releases, 238 commits, 21 PRs in 6 months
customizeplanet
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