Luca Pascarella is a software engineering leader and researcher currently shaping cloud-native, IoT-ready architectures as Head of Software Engineering at AltraBits, where he designs the cloud-to-IoT communications stack and leads embedded systems architecture. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, he brings nine years of experience spanning academia and industry, including roles as Lecturer at ETH Zürich and Senior Researcher at the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET. His research and practice traverse cloud infrastructure, low-power embedded systems, and NLP/LLMs for automating software development tasks, developed during his postdoctoral work at USI. Previously, as co-founder and head of software architecture at LPSystems B.V., he guided MQTT reliability, TLS security, and edge authentication with a focus on energy efficiency. An adventurous motorcyclist with a product-minded, evidence-driven approach, he thrives on turning complex requirements into robust, scalable solutions that bridge theory and real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Researcher | Lecturer, Low-Power Embedded System | Robot, Postdoctoral Researcher | Lecturer, Low-Power Embedded System | Robot at ETH Zürich
Master’s Degree, Computer science engineering. Master Degree, Master’s Degree, Computer science engineering. Master Degree at Università degli Studi del Sannio-Benevento
Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Delft University of Technology
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