Luca Cipriani
Chief Of Strategy - Fractional
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Cipriani is a pragmatic technology leader and fractional Chief Strategy Officer who helps growth-stage tech companies scale engineering teams from 10 to 300+ with a focus on sustainable processes, culture, and OKR-driven execution. With 17 years in software engineering and DevOps, he has led engineering and strategy at Arduino (CIO, built a distributed team and launched Arduino Create, driving $3M+ in SaaS revenue) and held senior leadership roles at Jimdo overseeing 100+ engineers. He combines hands-on experience—building high-uptime systems, integrating HTTPS into cloud agents, and setting up frontend testing—with board-level strategy, technical due diligence, and investor advising. Luca also designs practical automation and AI-driven tools for nonprofits and legacy businesses, such as NORA AI for grant discovery, showing a knack for translating complex tech into mission-oriented products. Based in Turin, he splits time between fractional leadership, OKR coaching, and contributing to open-source projects where he focuses on testing and DevOps reliability. Known for bridging deep technical fluency with clear strategic roadmaps, he thrives in the messy startup-to-scale-up transition.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Student Physics, Student Physics at Sapienza Università di RomaComputer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di TorinoBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of LondonStudent Information Technology Engineering, Student Information Technology Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian
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Github Skills (38)
network-configuration10
javascript10
cypress10
ssl10
scripting10
testing10
http10
bash10
jscript10
automation10
script10
go10
install-script10
sh10
automations10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
arduino/arduino-create-agent
Jun 2015 - Aug 2019
Arduino Cloud Agent
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 commits, 47 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily worked on integrating HTTPS and SSL support into the Arduino Create Agent. This involved modifying the build scripts to include certificates, updating the Go application to use HTTPS, and configuring the frontend to handle both HTTP and HTTPS connections. They also added daemon capabilities to the agent. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes related to network configurations.
safarifirefoxagentchromearduino
smallbets/userbase
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Create secure and private web apps using only static JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:100 commits, 20 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on setting up and implementing testing frameworks for the project's frontend components. Their contributions included initial test setup with Cypress, including the creation of test configuration files and a basic example test. They wrote tests for user signup and login functionality, showing an understanding of the Userbase API used within the project. The user's commits indicate an effort to build a robust testing environment for the application.
secureprivacysecurityjavascriptcss
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