Franco Ponticelli
Founder at Curvo
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolFranco Ponticelli is a seasoned founder and CTO with 17+ years building high-throughput, product-focused engineering teams and shipping multimedia and data-driven applications from prototype to production. Based in Boulder, he blends deep hands-on expertise across server and client stacks (haXe/PHP/C#/JS/AS3) with a design-first background in architecture and product design, enabling elegant UI and systems thinking. He has led engineering at Google and multiple startups, delivered a dozen finance-grade products at Pellucid with dramatically higher throughput than competitors, and recently drove the technical consolidation of supply-chain systems for 1,500+ hospitals as an interim CTO. An active contributor to the Haxe compiler—implementing PHP code generation—he combines open-source impact with pragmatic execution and a knack for turning fragmented systems into measurable operational value.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at Universidade Técnica de LisboaBachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Industrial and Product Design at Politecnico di Milano
English, Portuguese, Italian
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Github Skills (12)
haxe10
php10
code-generation10
transpiler9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
actionscript6
json6
dynamic-typing6
openfl6
javascript6
instantiation6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
HaxeFoundation/haxe
Jul 2008 - Dec 2016
Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:304 commits, 3 PRs, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Franco contributed to the Haxe compiler by implementing and integrating haXe/PHP features. Their work included changes to the `genphp.ml` file, which is responsible for PHP code generation. The user also removed and updated code related to PHP. Furthermore, the user modified code related to test and documentation files, indicating a focus on PHP integration and code generation within the Haxe ecosystem.
macroscppopenflcompilertranspiler
fponticelli/dots
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 years 4 months
domdots
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