Giancarlo Niccolai
Lead Engineer at The Falcon Programming Language
Milan, Lombardy, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiancarlo Niccolai is a Lead Engineer based in Milan with 18 years of experience designing high-performance, network-sensitive systems for finance and infrastructure. He currently leads engineering at Citi and has long-standing stewardship of the open-source Falcon scripting language, reflecting a mix of enterprise and community-driven engineering. His background spans senior architecture roles at Bloomberg and Improbable, deep expertise in middleware and market data virtualization, and hands-on work optimizing code and network resources for low-latency environments. Trained in economics at Bocconi and rooted in information technology, he brings a rare coupling of quantitative reasoning and systems-level craftsmanship. Socially engaged and fond of arts and cognitive science, he blends collaborative leadership with a curiosity for complexity science and applied strategy. Colleagues describe his management style as open and involving, and he often pairs technical rigor with inventive approaches to cryptography and product design.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Economics, Master's degree, Economics at Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi'High-school Diploma, Information Technology, High-school Diploma, Information Technology at Itis Silvano Fedi
Chinese, French, Japanese, English
Github Skills (7)
programming-language10
3d8
game-engine8
game-development8
open-source7
godot7
ios3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
falconpl/Falcon2
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
The new incarnation of the Falcon Programming Language
Contributions:85 commits, 17 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 5 months
programming-language
falconpl/falcon
Aug 2007 - Oct 2018
The Falcon Programming Language.
Contributions:3 reviews, 3748 commits, 10 PRs in 11 years 3 months
programming-language
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