Paolo Di Francesco

Software Engineer and Full Stack Developer

Work experience

Publications on Microservice Architectures

Background

Work Experience

Full Stack Developer

Aesys, Pescara (PE) (ITALY)

External IT Consultant - banking domain.

April 2021 - Present

Full Stack Developer

Freelance (ITALY)

Design and development of a mobile application for promoting tourism and local business.
Project website: https://www.ortona.click

August 2019 - April 2021

Full Stack Developer

TreDiPi s.r.l., Pescara (PE) (ITALY)

Frontend and Backend development of software products and mobile applications, together with the design of their APIs.

September 2019 - November 2020

PhD grant IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (AQ) (Italy)

Research topics:

Architecture design and modeling
Migration towards the adoption of microservice-based architecture
Architecture recovery techniques

Publications

November 2015 - February 2019

IT Consultant

Freelance (Italy)

Design and development of web applications with support for data-analysis, SEO and marketing strategies.

December 2014 - Novembre 2015

Research grant for the realization of a web and mobile application for the Easyline Project

L'Aquila University, L'Aquila (AQ) (Italy)

Research, design and development of a web service and a mobile application for the Easyline project.

The goal of the application is to minimize the time that people usually spend while waiting in lines at public and private offices.

January 2015 - August 2015

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & DEVELOPER

Deltasystem s.r.l, Spoltore (PE) (Italy)

Software architect and lead developer in the design and development of web services and mobile applications in tourism and digital healthcare domains.

April 2013 - September 2014

Education

MASTER'S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

L'Aquila University, L'Aquila (AQ) (Italy)

Mälardalens högskola, Västerås (Sweden)

Double Degree in Global Software Engineering European Master Programme (GSEEM)

October 2012

Livello 7 EQF - 110/110 cum laude

BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

L'Aquila University, L'Aquila (AQ) (Italy)

July 2009

Livello 6 EQF - 102/110

Publications

Paolo Di Francesco, Patricia Lago, Ivano Malavolta (2019). Architecting with microservices: a systematic mapping study. Journal of Systems and Software, 150, pp. 77 - 97.
Mario Cardarelli, Ludovico Iovino, Paolo Di Francesco, Amleto Di Salle, Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago (2019). An Extensible Data-Driven Approach for Evaluating the Quality of Microservice Architectures. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2019, Limassol, Cyprus, April 08-12, 2019, pp. 1225–1234.
Paolo Di Francesco, Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago (2018). Migrating towards Microservice Architectures: an Industrial Survey. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Seattle, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2018, pp. 29-38. Slides
Paolo Di Francesco (2018). Semi-automatic architecture recovery of microservice-based systems. Poster session at ICT.OPEN 2018, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2018.
Paolo Di Francesco, Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago (2017). Research on Architecting Microservices: Trends, Focus, and Potential for Industrial Adoption. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 3, 2017, pp. 21–30. Slides
Giona Granchelli, Mario Cardarelli, Paolo Di Francesco, Ivano Malavolta, Ludovico Iovino, Amleto Di Salle (2017). Towards Recovering the Software Architecture of Microservice-based Systems. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (ICSAW), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 5, 2017, pp. 46–53. Slides
Giona Granchelli, Mario Cardarelli, Paolo Di Francesco, Ivano Malavolta, Ludovico Iovino, Amleto Di Salle (2017). MicroART: A Software Architecture Recovery Tool for Maintaining Microservice-based Systems. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (ICSAW), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 5, 2017, pp. 298–302. Slides
Paolo Di Francesco (2017). Architecting Microservices. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (ICSAW), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 5, 2017, pp. 224-229. Slides

Experience Abroad

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Guest PhD student, Software and Services Research Group.

Investigation and analysis of microservice architectures, refinements of MicroART-DSL, design and implementation of MicroART tool.

May 2018 - July 2018

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Guest PhD student, Software and Services Research Group.

Investigating Microservice-based Architectures.

April 2017 - July 2017

Mälardalens högskola

Västerås (Sweden)

Innovation Design and Technology department.

First year of GSEEM programme.

August 2009 - June 2010

Emerald Cultural Institute

Dublin (Ireland)

Intensive English course at Emerald Cultural Institute.

September 2006 - December 2006

Contacts

EMAIL: info@paolodifrancesco.com