Francesco Levorato

Francesco Levorato is an Agile team servant leader and radical candor practitioner with a strong background in remote work and a passion for adapting to the evolution of complex systems.

With a decade of experience in the startup ecosystem, Francesco advocates for transparency and empowerment to foster happier and more engaged teams.

His expertise spans over 12 years in backend development and devops across multiple languages (Scala, Python, Ruby, PHP), frameworks (RubyOnRails, Django, Symfony, Drupal), and environments (self-hosted, Heroku, AWS, Docker). Francesco is a proponent of test-driven development (TDD) and emphasizes clean code design practices.

Francesco excels in facilitating retrospectives, design-thinking workshops, event-storming sessions, and 1-1 meetings to maximize team happiness and commitment.

Educationally, Francesco studied Maturità classica at Liceo Classico Marchesi, completed an Erasmus program in Computer Science at University College London, U. of London, and holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science from Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia.

His professional journey includes roles such as CTO at Dash, Scala Team Lead at Paytouch (which later pivoted to Dash), Senior Backend Developer at Paytouch, Craftsman Python/Django Engineer at iDoneThis, Technical Teacher at the creative way, Senior Lead Developer at Pick1, Craftsman PHP developer at Nelmio, Technical Trainer at H-ART, and Drupal-PHP Web developer/Consultant at Flevour.net.