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Francesco Meli

Francesco Meli

Full Stack EngineerReggio Emilia, Italy
Available for freelance projects

I cannot look at anything for long without working out how I would model it and store it: a factory floor, an immersive theatre installation, or whatever I've decided to automate at home.

Stubborn and pragmatic, never afraid to take a thing apart to put it back better. Stateless is a religion.

13+
Years of experience
29+
Technologies used
8
Positions held
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01 · Experience

Where I've worked

Work History

Beefree (Growens S.p.A)

Apr 2021 · Present

Milan, Lombardia

  • moved to Technical Lead
  • team: mentored three frontend engineers
  • product: built the agent that writes emails to a brief in RGE Studio, and the MCP server that lets Claude drive it
  • tooling: built a Slack bot that moves pull requests through review
  • moved to Senior Full Stack Engineer
  • architecture: moved RGE Studio to Zustand and React Router 6
  • integration: rewrote how RGE Studio embeds the Beefree SDK
  • joined as Senior Frontend Engineer
  • product: built features in RGE Studio, used by 230K+ people
  • process: adopted ShapeUp, shipping in six-week cycles
Restful APITypeScriptPostgreSQLTemporalCypressDjangoPythonDockerGitHubReactCI/CDSassAWS

The Connected Pet Company, LLC

Oct 2023 · Dec 2023

RemoteFreelance · WONE di Meli Francesco

  • joined as Senior Frontend Engineer
  • product: built the purchase flow frontend, options to checkout
  • api: shaped the API with the backend dev, dug in when stuck
TypeScriptPythonGitHubDockerReactSass

Fees

May 2022 · Sep 2023

RemoteFreelance · WONE di Meli Francesco

  • joined as Senior Full Stack Engineer
  • migration: commissioned feesCAN's JavaScript to Python port, followed weekly
  • delivery: dockerized every application and automated the pipeline with GitHub Actions and Portainer
  • support: fixed bugs and added minor features on an ongoing basis
PortainerAngularGitHubPythonDockerIonicCI/CDAWSPHP
Education

Università Degli Studi Di Parma

Sep 2011 · Jul 2013

Parma, Italy

  • Bachelor of Science: Computer Engineering
  • thesis: "Design and implementation of an automated camera Dolly cart", a rig that carries a camera on a track for smooth movement in filmmaking and television. Supervised by Prof. Aurelio Piazzi and Prof. Luca Consoli

San Diego City College

Sep 2009 · Sep 2011

San Diego

  • Associate of Science: Computer Engineering
  • coursework: programming, mathematics and computer architecture

Kaplan Aspect

Oct 2008 · Jun 2009

San Diego

  • TOEFL: English
  • language: an intensive English proficiency programme

Istituto Blaise Pascal

Sep 2003 · Jul 2008

Reggio Emilia, Italy

  • High School Diploma: Computer Science
  • curriculum: a five-year technical programme in computer science and telecommunications
  • foundations: networking, Pascal, assembly, JavaScript and PHP
02 · Projects

What I build anyway

crew

Local dev on a distributed stack

Fifteen services in the stack and today you are touching two. crew reads the env files each project already ships, works out from them who calls whom, and makes every service a switch: flip one on and it runs locally with every peer rewritten to point at your machine, leave it off and it stays on the deployed environment, callers untouched.

Node.jsCLIZero dependencies
WebsiteSourcenpm

hoomes

Full text search over Italian property listings

Italian property portals let you filter by price, rooms and square metres, and not at all by the description, which is exactly where the garden and the panoramic view and the needs-work get mentioned. This scrapes the listings off the portals and puts full text search over the part nobody indexes.

ReactTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLRedisDocker
Live appSource

Il Giardino delle Cose Sperse

A room that keeps what people tell it

An immersive piece for a theatre collective, built around a radio of memories. Visitors record something they have lost at a station and it joins the pool, heard on headphones there and through the room at once. The mix is set before the piece goes live, never during. The same panel moderates what arrives, an LLM flagging first what a child should not hear, and holds the play settings, the roles and the fallback networks.

ReactPythonFastAPIRaspberry PiWeb AudioDocker
The installation
03 · Skills

What I work with

Frontend

Sass12 yrsReact10 yrsTypeScript5 yrsRedux4 yrsjQuery4 yrsAngular1 yrIonic1 yr

Backend

Python10 yrsDjango10 yrsRestful API7 yrsTemporal5 yrsPHP5 yrsLaravel2 yrsC#2 yrsLinq2 yrsExpress<1 yr

Databases

PostgreSQL10 yrsRedis4 yrsInfluxDB4 yrsmySQL4 yrsMSSQL2 yrs

DevOps & Tooling

Docker10 yrsCI/CD10 yrsGitHub9 yrsAWS5 yrsCypress5 yrsGitLab4 yrsSubversion2 yrsPortainer1 yr

Languages

ItalianEnglish

Soft skills

PragmaticDetail-orientedPersistent
04 · Testimonials

What people say

Consorzio BalsamicoCollettivo teatrale · Reggio Emilia

It was a true privilege to collaborate with Francesco Meli on the software development for Il giardino delle cose sperse (The Garden of Lost Things), an interactive installation and performance produced by Consorzio Balsamico and premiered at the Segnali Festival in Milan.

Il giardino delle cose sperse explores the relationship between memory and matter, presence and absence. To bring this vision to life, we needed an interactive digital space: a "radio of memories" accessible both via web and during live performances, designed to collect, broadcast, and record personal stories and intimate anecdotes.

Francesco took our initial core idea and helped us refine, elaborate, and fully realize it. He crafted a software solution that seamlessly handles both headphone listening (at a dedicated station where visitors can also record new memories) and ambient sound diffusion throughout the room, creating an immersive atmosphere.

What truly sets Francesco apart is his meticulous attention to detail and his ability to integrate technology naturally into an artistic process. His technical mastery and creative insight greatly enriched our installation.

I highly recommend Francesco Meli to anyone looking for a software developer who combines top-tier technical expertise with vision, precision, and artistic sensitivity.

Rick Faucher
Rick FaucherChief Partnerships Officer

Francesco was exceptional in tackling a big project in a small amount of time for us. He was efficient and very knowledgeable in connecting a new website front-end through middleware to the backend API engine. His troubleshooting and QA skills were put to task and he rose to the challenge with ease. I wouldn't hesitate to add him to another project or a dev team in the future.

Ian Baker
Ian BakerFullstack Software Engineer

I can enthusiastically recommend Francesco as a Software Engineer! I had the pleasure of collaborating with him at The Connected Pet Company, where his expertise with front end technologies like React proved invaluable, allowing us to iterate quickly and meet a tight deadline. Francesco consistently delivers high-quality solutions and demonstrates a strong ability to juggle business, product, and technological challenges. His professionalism and dedication make him a valuable asset to any team.

Stefano Bertelli
Stefano BertelliEngineering Manager

Francesco is a very talented engineer, always eager to challenge himself with new tasks. His analytical approach is remarkable. When dealing with new problems he has an open minded approach and it's not afraid of exploring new technologies to find leading edge solutions. He is a passionate developer with great communication skills and impressive dedication!

Tom KotsakosBusiness Analyst

Francesco worked tirelessly on developing the back-end and front-end for our company website from scratch. He has a very analytical mind, learns quickly and thoroughly, and has a broad knowledge on tangential fields to our business which offered a perspective that helped us give input on the design.

05 · Contact

Let's work together

Open in MapsReggio Emilia, Italy
Message on WhatsApp+39 340 238 0765
Send an emailiamfrancescomeli@gmail.com

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