Francesco Carnielli

AKA `hex7c0`

I am a CTO and engineering leader based in Verona, Italy, working with startups and scale-ups across EMEA. My work focuses on engineering organisation design, technical due diligence, architecture reviews, AI/ML product strategy, and scaling remote teams.

What I do

Engineering team structuring; hiring frameworks, career ladders
Technical due diligence for fundraising (Series A–D) and M&A
Architecture reviews and platform modernisation
AI/ML strategy; recommendation systems, LLM products, RAG architectures
Delivery improvement via DORA metrics, OKRs, sprint predictability

Track record

Scaled Everli engineering from 2 to 70+ engineers
Handled 4000% COVID traffic spike with zero downtime
Cut EUR 600k/year in SaaS costs through vendor renegotiation
Built a 93%-accuracy weather forecast model for 3M+ users at Ignitia
Stanford GSB executive program (2021)

Publications & Talks

AI Innovation for Early Warnings for All ITU / AI for Good speaker, 2025
Everli monetizes with targeted sponsored listings Kevel Case Study, 2023
The making of a manager Tech Blog, 2021
How we handled a 4000% increase in new users in one week Everli Tech Blog, 2020
Geo-lookup matching between retail stores and customer addresses Patent, 2019
Sincronizzazione dei dati tramite protocolli HTTP e MQTT University of Verona, 2017
Python encryption utility Github, 2017