I'm Francesco, a geotechnical engineer from Lima (Peru) specialized in numerical modeling, spatial variability, and soil behavior — particularly in mining geotechnics, like tailings dams and heap leach pads.
My core interest is geotechnical research through computational methods. I also deeply enjoy programming as a creative and technical hobby. I see code as a powerful companion in my work — not as a career path on its own.
Right now, I'm preparing for a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering and focusing on integrating modern programming tools into my research workflows.
- 📊 Modeling spatial variability in leached ore using SCPTu data and geostatistics.
- 🦀 Developing
cone, a command-line tool in Rust for exploring SCPTu profiles from CSV/XLSX files. - 📈 Generating anisotropic random fields for spatial modeling with Julia.
- 🧩 Writing constitutive models for FLAC using C++, with experiments in Rust FFI.
- Programming: Python and Rust.
- Geotechnical software: FLAC2D, RS2, Slide2
- Topics: constitutive modeling, random fields, soil behavior, numerical simulation
- Website → ffrancoa.com
- Blog (coming soon) → blog.ffrancoa.com
- LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/ffrancoa
- GitHub → @ffrancoa
Thanks for stopping by!