About Francesco
Italian
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent
English
Fluent
Experience
- Metis SrlChief Technology Officer & Co-FounderFebruary 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)
- Co-founded Metis Srl and led the development of a SaaS platform for secure document processing, semantic search, and AI-driven automation.
- Architected a modular microservices system on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); contributed directly to backend, DevOps, and machine learning development.
- Built and led the engineering team (2 FTEs), handling hiring, mentorship, and coordination across platform development and custom client solutions.
- Developed and deployed AI components including OCR pipelines, NLP workflows, and LLM-based autonomous agents for compliance automation and report generation.
- Designed and executed a cost-efficient model fine-tuning pipeline using LLM generated synthetic data and ONNX-optimized T5 models for fast inference.
- Delivered tailored integrations and APIs for B2B clients including VC firms, legal practices, research institutions, public bodies, and art market professionals.
- Led the complete SOC 2 Type II compliance process, including the definition and implementation of security controls, audit documentation, and policy workflows; collaborated with external auditors and consultants, and adapted cloud infrastructure to meet compliance requirements.
- Played a key role in strategic planning and investor communications, working closely with the CEO on product roadmap, positioning, and technical due diligence.
- wetter.com GmbHSenior Data ScientistJuly 2019 - January 2024 (4 years and 6 months)
- Leading the development of B2B data-products based on weather data and geo location data collected from mobile devices.
- Consulting projects for customers in different sectors (tourism, online publishing and marketing, retail, real-estate) with focus on time-series modelling.
- Collaboration with the mobile technical teams to main tain the data from mobile to the cloud-based backend.
- Telefónica Deutschland AGData ScientistJune 2018 - June 2019 (1 year)
- Collaboration with different departments (Network Engineering, Marketing, Strategy) to identify data-driven business cases and assess their potential.
- Conception and realisation of Proofs-of-Concepts for the application of innovative machine learning models (Driver Analysis and Intervention Simulation using Causal Networks).
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Education
- Master of ScienceUniversity of Milan2011Master of Science