Paolo Di Francesco

PhD, Sr. Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About

**** This is a personal page. The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer. In addition, my thoughts and opinions change from time to time I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind . **** I grew up in a small town on the beautiful Italian Adriatic coast. In 2003, I was off to Bologna for my university studies in Telecommunication Engineering. I left Bologna to purse a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. These were years of incredible learning and professional development in the areas of network planning and optimization, resource sharing, Software Defined Radios, and data-analysis including machine learning. In 2015, I left Dublin to move to Vienna to re-join with my then-to-be wife and start a job as Software Engineer, where I also lead a small team of software developers. Outside my professional life, I think my friends and my family would define me as a football “fanatic” since I love both playing and watching football."

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Full-time · 6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr. Solutions Architect
      Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    • Solutions Architect
      Jan 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Guest Lecturer at Technische Universität Wien
    Mar 2023 - Jun 2023 · 4 mos

    Project course on AWS Cloud Computing

  • Radar Cyber Security (3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Software Engineer / Architect
      Nov 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Ruby; Ruby on Rails; service oriented architecture

    • Software Developer
      Mar 2016 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Full stack developer (Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML, Postgres). Contributing and maintaining source code base.

    • Web App Team Lead
      Jan 2017 - Nov 2017 · 11 mos

  • Trinity College Dublin (5 yrs)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 · 7 mos

      - Fed4Fire EU project - Responsible for integrating the common access and control methodologies of the Fed4FIRE FP7 EU project into the FAVORITE wireless testbed (Wireless testbed @ CONNECT) - Responsible for designing and implementing a web-based application (full stack) to manage testbed resources for Trinity College students + enabling remote access.

    • PHD Candidate
      Sep 2011 - Aug 2015 · 4 yrs

      - Implementation of a split architecture (FPGA+GPP) to enable MAC experimentations based on carrier sensing on affordable SDR. - Temporal and spatial analysis of mobile cellular traffic using real traces from two Irish countrywide cellular providers (Meteor, and O2 - now Three -). The large-scale analysis comprises both GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA/HSPA networks for both DATA and VOICE services on a large-scale. - Methodology design to study large-scale mobile networks combining traffic demand information (e.g., upload, download, TAC) and demographic data to assess usage and distribution of mobile devices. - Impact of resource sharing in mobile networks planning. Tradeoffs existing between cost savings (OPEX) and competition regulations. Tradeoffs between infrastructure sharing and spectrum sharing.

    • Research Assistant
      Apr 2011 - Aug 2011 · 5 mos

      Cross-validation of experimental results through simulations

  • Visiting PHD Student at Virginia Tech
    Jul 2013 - Aug 2013 · 2 mos