{
  "identity": {
    "name": "Francesco Foresta",
    "tagline": "Cloud-native solution architect — platforms, edge, telco-hardened.",
    "location": "Forlì, Italy",
    "summary": "~12 years architecting cloud-native and edge systems, forged on SDN/NFV research and 5G/O-RAN at scale. Joining Red Hat (EMEA Ecosystem · OpenShift) in July 2026; until then Director of Software Architecture at JMA Wireless."
  },
  "roles": [
    {
      "title": "Senior Specialist Solution Architect",
      "org": "Red Hat",
      "focus": "EMEA Ecosystem · OpenShift · partner cloud-native",
      "from": "2026-07",
      "to": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Director, Software Architecture",
      "org": "JMA Wireless",
      "focus": "cloud-native RAN · O-RAN standardization · edge",
      "from": "2018",
      "to": "2026-07"
    },
    {
      "title": "System & Network Engineer",
      "org": "Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi",
      "focus": "production network engineering",
      "from": "2017-11",
      "to": "2018-06"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cloud Solutions Designer",
      "org": "Università di Bologna",
      "focus": "SDN/NFV · OpenStack research",
      "from": "2014-11",
      "to": "2017-10"
    }
  ],
  "credentials": [
    "CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator",
    "CKS — Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist",
    "Guest lecturer, University of Bologna (distributed systems / edge computing)"
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "title": "Improving OpenStack Networking: Advantages and Performance of Native SDN Integration",
      "venue": "IEEE ICC 2018",
      "year": 2018,
      "doi": "10.1109/ICC.2018.8422753",
      "award": "IEEE Best Paper — CSSMA Symposium"
    },
    {
      "title": "Implementation of Service Function Chaining Control Plane through OpenFlow",
      "venue": "IEEE NFV-SDN 2017",
      "year": 2017,
      "doi": "10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169852",
      "award": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Intent-based Management and Orchestration of Heterogeneous OpenFlow/IoT SDN Domains",
      "venue": "IEEE NetSoft 2017",
      "year": 2017,
      "doi": "10.1109/NETSOFT.2017.8004109",
      "award": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Performance of Intent-based Virtualized Network Infrastructure Management",
      "venue": "IEEE ICC 2017",
      "year": 2017,
      "doi": "10.1109/ICC.2017.7997431",
      "award": null
    }
  ],
  "patents": [
    {
      "id": "US12089071B2",
      "title": "Orchestrator and interconnection fabric mapper for a virtual wireless base station",
      "status": "Granted",
      "office": "US"
    },
    {
      "id": "US11856449B2",
      "title": "Integrated radio network with multi operator and multi signal format fronthaul capability",
      "status": "Granted",
      "office": "US"
    },
    {
      "id": "US20210029549A1",
      "title": "System and method for securely hosting multiple network operators in a shared spectrum access system on a single virtual base station environment",
      "status": "Published",
      "office": "US"
    },
    {
      "id": "WO2021041937A1",
      "title": "Blockchain-based method and system for securing a network of virtual wireless base stations",
      "status": "Published",
      "office": "WIPO/PCT"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "slug": "mix-ml",
      "name": "mix-ml",
      "blurb": "Cocktail intelligence: combinatorial optimization + flavor-distance metrics, UMAP/DBSCAN. FastAPI + HTMX, OpenShift GitOps.",
      "url": "https://mix.francescoforesta.com"
    },
    {
      "slug": "katei",
      "name": "katei",
      "blurb": "Japanese home-cooking knowledge graph with an OR-Tools constraint solver. VPS + OpenShift demo track.",
      "url": "https://katei.francescoforesta.com"
    },
    {
      "slug": "tea-rag",
      "name": "tea-rag",
      "blurb": "RAG over a catalogued Japanese tea collection. Cloudflare Workers + Vectorize.",
      "url": "https://tea.francescoforesta.com"
    },
    {
      "slug": "cv-mcp",
      "name": "cv-mcp",
      "blurb": "MCP server exposing my CV to AI agents. Live.",
      "url": "https://cv.francescoforesta.com"
    }
  ],
  "copy": {
    "pitch": "Architectural realism over tooling enthusiasm. Twelve years finding where cloud-native abstractions actually serve demanding workloads — and where they don't — proven by hands-on validation, from OpenStack/SDN research to 5G RAN at scale. Now bringing that to the broader cloud-native ecosystem at Red Hat.",
    "projectsIntro": "Side builds where I keep the cloud-native + AI muscles sharp outside work — optimization, knowledge graphs, RAG — all shipped on OpenShift / Cloudflare:"
  },
  "links": {
    "site": "https://francescoforesta.com",
    "github": "https://github.com/unusualfor",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frforesta/"
  },
  "tea": {
    "note": "Catalogued Japanese tea collection — Uji/Kyoto + Kyushu.",
    "highlights": [
      "Marukyu Koyamaen — Kiun, ceremonial matcha · Uji",
      "Nakamura Tokichi Honten — Hatsu no Mukashi, ceremonial matcha · Uji",
      "Kanbayashi Shunsho Honten — Zuigyoku, premium gyokuro · Uji",
      "Nakamura Tokichi Honten — Miyako no Tatsumi, sencha · Uji",
      "Nagata Seicha — Aso no Megumi, premium sencha · Aso, Kyushu",
      "Kusano Seichaen — Satsuki Tsuyu, tamaryokucha · Ureshino, Kyushu"
    ]
  },
  "contact": {
    "note": "Assembled at runtime only — never in static HTML."
  }
}