Francesco Del Re

Executive Program Manager · Modernization of Italian Public Administration Systems
Internationally published author · Apress (Springer Nature)
Distributed systems · .NET · Architecture · AI

👤 About

I am an Executive Program Manager in public sector digital transformation, accountable for outcomes, budget, and delivery across a modernization portfolio. I coordinate multiple streams and cross-functional teams, guiding Program Managers, Solution Architects, and engineering teams, and I own the technical strategy for my area: standards, solution directions, and reference architectures for the replacement of large-scale legacy systems. That remit includes the strategy for AI adoption in software development, from the practices engineering teams follow to the governance around them.

Behind the leadership role there is over a decade of hands-on engineering, and I still write code, publish libraries, and review architectures. My work sits at the demanding end of the discipline: high-complexity distributed architectures, concurrency, and the resilience of systems that cannot afford to fail. It is the kind of engineering where correctness has to be reasoned about rather than assumed, and that is what my open source work, my writing, and my book keep coming back to.

I am an internationally published author: my book on resilience and self-healing in .NET is published by Apress, the technology imprint of Springer Nature, and written in English for a global audience of developers and architects.

I hold an MSc in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza, University of Rome, with a specialization in distributed systems and computer architecture, and my earlier research on distributed and adaptive systems was presented at the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems conference. I am also registered in the European Commission expert database for evaluation and advisory activities on digital transformation, interoperability, innovation, and public sector modernization.

📘 Book

Designing Self-Healing Systems with .NET: From Resilience to Autonomous Recovery in Modern Software Systems

Apress (Springer Nature), 2026 · ISBN 979-8-8688-3176-8

A hands-on guide to building .NET systems that detect their own failures, including the subtle gray failures that health checks miss, recover from them automatically, and verify that the recovery actually worked. It distils more than a decade of work on distributed systems that cannot afford to fail into patterns, reference implementations, and production-ready code on .NET.

📄 Publications

2026 - Designing Self-Healing Systems with .NET: From Resilience to Autonomous Recovery in Modern Software Systems (book, Apress / Springer Nature, ISBN 979-8-8688-3176-8)
2026 - The PDND E-Service Network: A Graph-Based Model from Italian Open Government Data
2026 - Medallion Architecture for PDND: Data Quality, Integration, and Semantic Alignment
2013 - Regulating Concurrency in Software Transactional Memory: An Effective Model-based Approach
2013 - Self-optimizing Concurrency in Software Transactional Memory via Model-based Approach

🧮 Experimental Mathematics

I am applying AI and experimenting with it in several scientific contexts. In mathematics, AI-assisted verification tools I built helped correct Henri Cohen's dictionary of continued fractions, and the October 2026 version acknowledges the contribution.

2026 - H. Cohen, Continued Fractions of Polynomial Type: Theory and Encyclopedic Dictionary

📦 Open Source

I maintain 19 packages on NuGet, with 27k+ total downloads. The most used are WART-Core, which forwards Web API calls to a SignalR hub as real-time events, SharpConnector, which puts one API over multiple NoSQL backends, and RESTSchemaRetry, an implementation of the Schema-Retry pattern for REST clients.

Not everything I work on ships as a package. SibillaOS is an Ubuntu 24.04 derivative, released under Apache-2.0, that turns a machine into a local LLM appliance, currently a proof of concept. dotnet-design-patterns is a teaching collection of all 23 Gang of Four patterns implemented in C# on .NET 9, each with its own README and xUnit tests, and it is the repository people star the most.

🇮🇹 Developers Italia

Four of my NuGet packages target the Piattaforma Digitale Nazionale Dati, the Italian public sector interoperability platform, and two of the repositories behind them are maintained under the Developers Italia organization: pdnd-client-assertion-generator, which handles OAuth 2.0 client assertion and voucher retrieval, and pdnd-metadata-dotnet, which extracts and normalizes request metadata.

🐧 SibillaOS

Install Linux, get a working LLM API. Nothing else to set up.

An Ubuntu 24.04 LTS derivative, released under Apache-2.0, that turns a machine into a local LLM appliance. The installer detects the hardware, chooses between vLLM and Ollama, picks a model and quantization that fit from a curated, signed catalog, and from first boot serves an OpenAI-compatible API protected by a bearer token. A working proof of concept, tested end to end in CI on every push.