Roberto Francescon
Control Software Egineer at Dynamic Optics
Padua, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolRoberto Francescon is a control software engineer and communications researcher with 11 years of experience building and testing wireless and underwater networking systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering and is pursuing doctoral research at the University of Padova’s SIGNET lab, combining academic rigor with hands-on sea trial experience alongside NATO STO CMRE and industry partners. Roberto has a strong track record as a C++ developer for underwater communication simulation (DESERT Underwater) and has designed protocols and infrastructure for a University spin-off, Wireless and More. Now at Dynamic Optics, he applies his background in communications engineering to control software and analysis tasks, bridging research prototypes and production-ready systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between field experiments and low-level software, often surfacing practical insights about real-world channel behavior that inform protocol design. Based in Padua, he brings a rare blend of maritime fieldwork experience and rigorous software development to challenging networking problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dottorato di ricerca, Ingegneria dell'informazione, Dottorato di ricerca, Ingegneria dell'informazione at Università degli Studi di PadovaDiploma scientifico, Diploma scientifico at Liceo Scientifico Enrico Fermi
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
ns210
simulate10
raptor10
encoding10
simulator9
protocols9
simulation9
wireless4
portable2
extensible2
modularity2
embedded2
iot1
trend1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
obolo/DESERT_Underwater
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
DESERT Underwater: an NS-Miracle extension to DEsign, Simulate, Emulate and Realize Test-beds for Underwater network protocols
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
simulatedesertrealizesimulationemulate
obolo/freeRaptor
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
A free and open implementation of Raptor codes
Contributions:50 commits, 8 PRs, 56 pushes in 8 years
fountain-codeserror-correcting-codesencodingraptor
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