Francesco Zanitti is a Staff Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with over 14 years of experience building and leading backend systems across startups and product teams. He combines hands-on implementation in TypeScript, Python, Rust and Elixir with architectural stewardship—shaping technical direction at Issuu and now driving platform work at Formalize. Comfortable with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and both AWS and GCP, he focuses on pragmatic architecture and shipping data-driven services at scale. A former PhD student in programming languages and semantics, he brings rigorous problem‑solving and a taste for clean design to pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Outside work he channels curiosity into street photography and board game design, reflecting a creative approach to systems and user experience.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Information Technology ICT, Master in Information Technology ICT at Università degli Studi di Udine
Contributions:45 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years
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