Francesco Salamida

Industry GenAI Tech Lead, Automotive & Manufacturing @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

About

After the university degree, he gained important experiences in various fields of telecommunication, semiconductor and industrial automation. He mainly worked for multinational corporations initially as software engineer but than going more and more towards managerial positions always keeping a personal preference for software engineering aspects and practicing hands-on. Strongly oriented to reach ambition targets, being them technological or business, he’s familiar working in international, competitive and multicultural environments. He approach problem solving dosing creativity, lateral thinking, practicality or rigorously on a case by case basis having innovation as tool as well as target. Team Work Extensive: experience in participation of several multi-site project and technology transfers Communication Skills: Presentations in internal engineering summits, customers’ meetings, international conferences andinvestors Development Process: design and implementation of development process for delivery of quality software Finance and Admin: budgeting, business plans, resources hiring Technical expertise: automotive, embedded OS and programming, cloud, hardware and silicon design (basics), networking, voip, routing, wireless, programming languages (c/c++, python, bash, perl, javascript, php, typescript), DevOps methodology and tools.

Country

Italy

City

Milan

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

VoIP, Wireless, Start-ups, Telecommunications, Embedded Systems, Ethernet, Routing, Product Management, IP, SIP, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, QoS, Business Planning, Mobile Devices, Pre-sales, IPTV, Management, C++, ATM networks

Experience

Industry GenAI Tech Lead, Automotive & Manufacturing

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2026-3 - Present · 7 mos

Leader SA Specialists, Automotive & Manufacturing

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2024-3 - 2026-4 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Leading a wonderful team of specialist solutions architects devoted to delight our automotive and manufacturing customers

Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Automotive

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2021-12 - 2024-2 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Support to EU Automotive OEM on Software-Defined-Vehicle use cases using Cloud-Native approach and tools.

Principal Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2019-12 - 2021-11 · 2 yrs

Support to EU Auto OEM for Connected Vehicle workloads

Chief Technology and Innovation Officer

VX Fiber

2015-7 - 2019-12 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Rearchitected legacy OSS adopting a micro-service architecture. Implemented a fully integrated CI/CD pipeline with GitLab and SaltStack. Evolving the new design toward containers and Kubernetes.

Cloud Architect

Allied Telesis

2013-3 - 2015-6 · 2 yrs 4 mos

San Jose (CA), Milan

Design and development of a private cloud controller using DevOps methodologies and tools. The cloud controller is able to auto provision a full stack from bare metal hardware up to the applications. Designed an open source python library for multi-vendor network devices abstraction and configuration automation (www.py-networking.com). Advisory on building company strategy on the emerging SDN technologies. Among tools a platform used: Python, Saltstack, Xenserver and OpenStack.

Managing Director

Msona Ltd

2007-9 - 2013-3 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Milan, London

Start-up of Msona Limited (www.msona.co.uk): developed the business idea, written business plan and successfully completed several round of financing with private and business investors as well as a private equity fund. The main product, called mBox, is all-in-one multi-service, multi-function and multi-purpose Unified IP Communications & Applications Internet appliances that deliver true convergence of data, voice, video and IT applications at the customer premise. In March 2009, Msona introduces to the market his product and start to build its sales network with 8 country/regional distributors, several resellers and 3 branches and HQ in Reading, UK.

Managing Director

Allied Telesis

2000-2 - 2007-9 · 7 yrs 8 mos

Start-up of Allied Telesis Labs (ATL-M) within the Allied Telesis group (www.at-group.com) for development of multiservice gateways for terminating triple play broadband networks. These products embed several leading edge technologies like IP routing, Ethernet switching, VoIP with protocol like SIP, MGCP and H.323, IP multicast, QOS, ADSL2/2+, ATM, GePON, eCoS, embedded Linux, C, C++ and others. The BU revenues grew from 0 to about 19M USD in 2006. More than 300,000 gateways have been shipped worldwide.

Senior Software Engineer

FANUC FA Europe S.A.

1998-10 - 2000-1 · 1 yr 4 mos

Developed application for machine tool control for car engine piston manufacturing. The application was developed in C++ on an embedded system machine tool platform.

Architectural Design Team Leader

NXP Semiconductors

1996-4 - 1998-9 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Architectural design of PowerPC based System-on-Chip microcontrollers for the automotive market using innovative hardware/software codesign approach and a discrete event simulator called BoNES.