Roberto Franchini
Principal Software Engineer at Arcade Data Ltd
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolRoberto Franchini is a Principal Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience designing and delivering scalable back-end and big-data/fast-data architectures, currently shaping technology strategy at Arcade Data. He blends deep Java/JVM expertise with hands-on leadership—having built Lucene full-text and spatial indexes for OrientDB, led near-real-time NLP pipelines at BlogMeter, and contributed backend improvements to the widely used Activiti BPM engine. Comfortable moving between coding, architecture (RFCs/ADRs) and people management, he’s driven CI/CD, Dockerization, and microservice migrations while coaching teams and aligning roadmaps with business needs. An active speaker and open-source contributor, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a passion for new technologies and maintaining practical pet projects on GitHub. A less obvious strength is his track record of improving testability and release automation to raise product quality in open-source and enterprise settings.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Techincian ICT, Information Technology Techincian ICT at I.T.I.S. A.SobreroMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian
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Github Skills (14)
processmaker10
javas10
activiti10
bpmn10
java10
spring-boot10
testing9
lucene6
elasticsearch6
orientdb6
csv6
amazon-ec26
solr6
ssh6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Activiti/Activiti
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily contributed to the backend of the Activiti BPM platform, focusing on process engine enhancements and variable mapping functionalities. Their work included modifying the VariablesMappingProvider, adding tests related to variable mapping, and fixing constants and variable mapping issues. The user also addressed code review feedback and refactored code. Their contributions show a strong understanding of the core engine's internal workings.
business-process-managementprocess-managementactivition-serverjava-application
robfrank/utilities
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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