Luca Cappa
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarLuca Beltrami is a senior software development engineer with 26 years of experience building C++ systems across Xbox, Windows and other Microsoft platforms from Redmond. He shipped early live TV and video-on-demand applications for Xbox 360 and continues to improve developer tooling as a back-end contributor to the popular microsoft/vscode-cpptools extension, adding language-server commands, header filtering and debugging enhancements. A C++ and CMake enthusiast with practical DevOps and Scrum Master experience, he bridges low-level performance engineering with modern CI workflows on GitHub/Azure. His background includes shipping mobile and embedded software on Symbian and BlackBerry, giving him deep insight into constrained-platform development and cross-platform portability. A first-class MEng computer science graduate from the University of Warwick, he brings a blend of hands-on implementation and developer-experience focus that often surfaces as subtle tooling improvements that accelerate teams.
26 years of coding experience
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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azure-devops
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
cprogramming-language10
vs-extension9
language-server-protocol9
vscode-extension9
azure-devops9
microsoft8
powershell6
azure-pipelines6
tfs6
visual-studio6
angular-cli6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 29 PRs, 53 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Luca contributed to the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code by adding new commands and functionalities to the language server. They added a command to fetch the includes graph for a TU, enhanced debugging capabilities to inspect local variable values, and integrated C++ configuration as a language model tool. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as filtering C++ headers and creating a code snippet provider to improve the extension's performance.
cppvscode-extensionvscodevs-codemicrosoft
lukka/CppCMakeVcpkgTemplate
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
A template project to build a C++/CMake/vcpkg based projects with IDE and GitHub Actions. Build is sped up with caching of artifacts.
Contributions:22 reviews, 5 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 2 months
cppcmakespeedcpp20caching
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