Luca Bolognese
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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SeniorLuca Bolognese is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with 20+ years in software, combining early developer/architect roots with extensive leadership of large, business-critical engineering teams. He played a key role in shipping multiple SQL Server and Visual Studio releases, helped initiate LINQ and productize F#, and holds 20+ patents alongside a top-1% technical blog and recognized speaking record. At Credit Suisse he built and scaled trading applications from scratch to a 400+ user suite, hiring and coaching teams across onshore and offshore sites. He remains hands-on—contributing to open source projects like Azure DevTestLab automation and Roslyn source generators—and continues private work on trading and portfolio-management tools. Based in Barcelona/Javea, he blends deep compiler, language, and cloud automation expertise with practical delivery and people development strengths. An unexpected detail: beyond software he has pursued CFA Level I and applied Bayesian ideas to hiring in a Bill Gates–received whitepaper pilot.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Italian
Github Skills (17)
csv-parse10
roslyn10
scripting10
microsoft-azure10
automation10
dotnet-core10
csv-parsing10
powershell10
azure10
automations10
csharp10
source-generators10
devops10
net-sdk9
azurerm9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-devtestlab
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 65 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Luca significantly contributed to the development of a PowerShell library for Azure DevTest Labs, primarily focused on automating tasks. The user's commits showcase a deep understanding of PowerShell scripting, Azure services, and integration with the Azure environment. They implemented numerous fixes, refactored code, and added features like schedule management, demonstrating expertise in automating and managing the DevTest Labs environment.
artifactsazure
dotnet/roslyn-sdk
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Roslyn-SDK templates and Syntax Visualizer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on developing source generators within the Roslyn SDK. Their contributions involved creating a CSV generator that processes CSV files to generate corresponding C# classes, including reading CSV data and generating code for class properties. They also refactored the code, removing dependencies such as the Pluralize library and debugging statements. Furthermore, the user updated and modified various files related to the source generator samples, including project files and test cases.
roslyndotnetvisualizersdkcsharp
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