Francesco Dondi

Software Engineer

Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland7 yrs 7 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

8+ years of experience in software development.
Expertise in C/C++ and Python with a focus on machine learning.
Strong background in SQL optimization and data analysis.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Software Engineer with expertise in AI and Data Management.

Contact

francesco314@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

C++Go (programming Language)MongodbPythonMachine LearningComputer VisionAwsCloud ComputingSqlData ArchitectureDatabase DesignData AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentCHigh Performance Computing

Other Skills

Web Services APILangChainREST APIsGinKubernetesPython (Programming Language)PyTorchDistributed ComputingDockerGstreamerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)JenkinsEmbedded SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Linux

About

Experienced software developer, with 8+ years of experience, mostly in C/C++ and Python, with a strong background in SQL optimization, infrastructure management, problem solving, and data analysis. Studied Mathematics at the University of Padua; currently pursuing continuous learning in business intelligence and data analytics. Extensive experience in working remote and for international companies.

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Randstad digital switzerland

Software Developer

Sep 2025 – Nov 2025 · 2 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Contract to migrate a C++ service for Google/YouTube.

C++Web Services API

Hoshii

Backend Engineer

Apr 2025 – May 2025 · 1 mo · Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Delivered a React webshop, integrating with MongoDb and Go backend, expanding the API as needed. Improved the AI orchestration pipeline.

Go (Programming Language)LangChainREST APIsGinMongoDBKubernetes

Giotto.ai

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · Zurich, Switzerland · Remote

Contributed to cutting-edge research tackling the ARC challenge. Especially
focused on data augmentation. Extensively used BART for
classification, and Pytorch/Lightning for efficient multi-GPU training.

Python (Programming Language)PyTorchDistributed ComputingPythonMachine Learning

Deep impact ag

Software Engineer

Mar 2024 – May 2024 · 2 mos · Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland · Hybrid

Had the opportunity to have direct experience of Computer Vision, both on cloud and edge embedded devices (Nvidia Jetson platform).
Contributed by overhauling Docker setup and solving bugs.

Python (Programming Language)Computer VisionDockerSQLGstreamerContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+3

Doublecloud

Software Engineer

Mar 2023 – Sep 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

Maintained and developed the infrastructure around managed ClickHouse, in particular:
○ Secured metrics server by adding Nginx
○ Improved SaltStack configuration
○ Solved bugs in Telegraf Go plugins

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingLinuxRoot Cause AnalysisAgile MethodologiesDatabases+4

Firebolt

Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

Maintained and developed the SQL optimization engine and relative testing
infrastructure.
○ Expanded supported SQL syntax and optimizations
○ reworked the test framework to support new test suite
○ contributed to rewriting to higher standards the optimization engine

GitPython (Programming Language)Software DevelopmentData ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing+11

F trust (switzerland) ag

Software Engineer and Quant Analyst

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Zug, Switzerland

Maintained and developed a Trading Engine (C++)
○ redesigned, implemented and migrated product storage (PostgreSQL)
○ extracted and integrated data from multiple log streams
○ analyzed said data to highlight opportunities for improvement (Julia)

GitSoftware DevelopmentJuliaLinuxDatabase DesignData Visualization+8

Google

Software Engineer

Oct 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

Productionized an initially experimental tool contributing to Search.
○ Improved runtime from days to hours
○ added support for new kinds of data
○ made the results easily visualizable and monitorable
○ made onboarding orders of magnitude faster for most cases

Software DevelopmentCloud ComputingLinuxData VisualizationRoot Cause AnalysisAgile Methodologies+7

Ascent software

Senior Software Developer

Apr 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Malta

I helped maintain and develop a driver (C++) for automotive communications, running both on regular computers and embedded (QNX real-time OS) systems.

Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesScrumProduction Systems