Luca Franchi

BASc Computer Engineering

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Toronto

Experience

  • Associate at PwC Italy
    2026 - 2026 · Less than a year

  • Co-Founder & CFO at UofT Hatchery
    May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Founded a startup working on hospitality optimization at the NEST - Hatchery program at U of T, and was one of the winning teams out of 150+ applicants and 40+ participants. Established a partnership with a large multi-national restaurant group and ran in-person testing of our algorithms and models, with early tests suggesting up to a 2.5% increase in revenue. Developed a machine learning model to predict the number of guests that visit a restaurant each day, and an optimization algorithm to assign servers and reservations based on historical data.

  • Junior Hardware Engineer, XR Lab at European Space Agency - ESA
    Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 · 7 mos

    Developed a prototype head-tracking system for a 0-gravity compatible VR headset for use in astronaut training on board the International Space Station FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) optimization of software to reduce glass to glass passthrough latency

  • Intern at CGI
    May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos

  • Work Experience Student at Spire
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2018 · 1 mo