Francesco ZinghinìParty-appointed technical expertise

Curriculum vitae

Twenty years across development, systems and technical leadership. The thread running through them is the same: understanding how a system actually behaves, not how it is supposed to.

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Education

  • Degree in Electronic Engineering — Systems Theory

    Sapienza University of Rome · 2006

    Thesis: «A monitoring system for safety in major civil works» — monitoring, reliability and safety of complex systems.

  • Order of Engineers of the Province of Rome

    Registration no. 31345

    Registration with the professional order, with the attendant continuing development requirement and code of conduct.

Professional experience

  • Senior System Architect

    Since 2025

    Public university, on behalf of a group in the sector

    • Design, operation and optimisation of on-premise and cloud infrastructure for a university.
    • Service migration, systems automation and technical coordination.

  • Infrastructure and IT strategy consultant — independent

    2014 – 2025

    Various clients: small and medium enterprises, startups

    • Design and optimisation of Unix and Linux server architectures, with an emphasis on scalability and security.
    • Setting architectural standards and development practice, code review, technical development of engineering teams.
    • End-to-end design and delivery of language-model based solutions, with particular attention to retrieval-augmented architectures and multi-agent systems.
    • Lifecycle management of generative components in production: release, testing and continuous monitoring.
    • Development of programming interfaces for integration between heterogeneous systems.
    • Automation of administrative tasks — backups, monitoring, deployment — through scripting.

  • IT director / head of infrastructure

    2011 – 2014

    Publisher of a high-traffic financial portal

    • Technical and strategic responsibility for a high-traffic web platform.
    • Leadership of a multidisciplinary team of systems engineers and developers, against high-availability and scalability targets.
    • Server architecture design and performance tuning for peak load.
    • Security, backup and monitoring strategy; integrations with external partners.

  • Senior web and systems developer, adviser to the IT directorate

    2010 – 2011

    Real-estate franchising group

    • Development and maintenance of complex web applications for a franchise network.
    • Server-side and database performance tuning.
    • Technical advice to the IT directorate on technology strategy.

  • Web and systems developer

    2009 – 2010

    Real-estate platform company

    • Development of new server-side features for a sector platform.
    • Corrective maintenance and optimisation of the existing codebase.

Languages

Italian, native; English, written and spoken at professional level.

The CV as a PDF

A printable version is available here, stripped of the details there is no reason to publish online — tax code, date of birth, mobile number — and otherwise identical.

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References

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