Francisco Rosa is a Distinguished Engineer with over 10 years of experience driving software development and lifecycle practices at NetApp, rising from Software Engineer to Technical Director before his current role. He combines deep technical skills—analysis and design, programming languages, and database administration—with project and process leadership to deliver scalable, production-grade systems. A published author and experienced speaker, he has shared operational insights on streaming and observability at Boston University and Elastic{ON}. His background includes CTO and principal engineering roles in startups and adtech, giving him a strong mix of hands-on implementation and strategic product thinking. An active contributor to the open-source community, he often focuses on making large-scale data processing and operational tooling more reliable and maintainable. Based in Sudbury, MA, he brings an uncommon blend of academic rigor from Instituto Superior Técnico and decades of applied engineering across research and industry.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MSC Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MSC Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
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