Francesco has worked with Erlang since 1995, helping shape its evolution from a niche telecom language into today’s global ecosystem of languages and communities. He began his Erlang journey at Ericsson’s Computer Science Laboratory under Erlang co-creator Joe Armstrong and later contributed to the first OTP release while working in Ericsson’s training and consulting division. In 1999, shortly after Erlang became open source, he founded Erlang Solutions,helping companies adopt Erlang, later expanding into Elixir and Gleam. Over the past 25 years, Francesco has supported organisations worldwide through consulting, education, conferences, and community initiatives. He is the co-author of Erlang Programming and Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP, has contributed to scientific publications, and has taught Erlang, concurrent programming and distributed systems at universities and professional programmes, including the University of Oxford. Through training, conferences, online learning, and mentorship, he has helped educate and inspire thousands of developers across the Erlang and Elixir ecosystem.