Francesco Merlo

Associate since 2009, I've been the Technical Leader of all main Reflab project in the last three years. I'm specialized in software architecture, mainly on Plone based projects, and user interfaces design for which he care usability and user experience. I've been fond of Free Software and web technologies for years.

From 2007 I work in Reflab. Thanks to my long experience, I've a deep knowledge on many Plone addons and knows how to combine them depending on the specific situations. I love to coordinate small and medium teams of developers with different skills in order to reach project objectives. My dream is to grow, year after year, an extraordinary company rooted in Italy but with an international spirit.

Before join Reflab, I develop web applications with Zope/Plone since 2002 when I worked for the University of Turin on e-learning and collaborative web applications.

Graduated in Economics in 2003, my studies were specialized in informatics applied to the economic sciences; I loved to study in deep the complexity theories and agent based simulations. My thesis dealed about an enterprise simulator written in Java, applied to an important italian company.

Interests:

I love snoboarding, trekking, playing video and board games and, finally, following my favorite football team.