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Marco Franzon

Building practical AI systems in the real world.

About

I build AI systems that run outside the lab on real hardware, in real environments, with real constraints. My focus is on computer vision, edge AI, and physical systems where latency, cost, and reliability actually matter.

I care about making AI practical, reproducible, and understandable. If it only works on a beefy GPU in a notebook, it's not done yet.

Experience

2023 - now

Dualistic

Co-Founder

Digital twins, simulation, and AI for physical systems.

2020 - now

eXact Lab

Data Engineer

HPC infrastructure and machine learning pipelines at scale.

2023 - now

Docker

Docker Captain

Community leadership, containers, and developer tooling.

Course

Computer Vision with Marco

NEW

An interactive course on how machines see - live kernel editors, real-time edge detection, animated CNN architectures. Runs entirely in your browser.

Filters Edges Features CNNs Detection +3 more

Projects

Circuitiny

Local-first, AI-assisted circuit design. Wire components in 3D, describe what you want, and the agent writes the ESP-IDF firmware and simulates it - all before you touch a chip.

TypeScript AI Agent ESP32 3D

/render

A Claude Code skill that turns plain English into 3D models - build123d Python under the hood, rendered live in your browser.

Claude Code build123d 3D

CV Open Source

YOLO training templates, matrix-vision app, real-time detection demos.

YOLO Python

Writing

CLI Is All You Need 2026
I see OpenCode more than my family 2026
Computer Vision for Edge Devices: Seeing Like a Machine 2026

Presentations

Secure by Default: Docker Sandboxes & Docker Compose Meets AI 2026 · Trento

Principles

Ship real systems Demos are easy. Production is the work that counts.
Simplicity wins The best solution is the one you can explain in one sentence.
AI runs everywhere If it needs a data center, it's not finished yet.