Luca Errani is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud- and network-focused solutions, currently helping tens of thousands navigate Italian IRS bureaucracy at Fiscozen. With a master's in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and a solid background in full-stack development, he blends performance-minded backend work with polished UI improvements. He has shipped features across startups and scale-ups, including Doctolib and consulting roles at meXage, and works remotely from Bologna. An active open-source contributor, Luca enhanced real-time LaTeX rendering and UI behavior in the popular Xournal++ project, demonstrating attention to user-facing details and cross-platform C++/GTK development. Practical, curious, and detail-oriented, he pairs academic training in networks and cloud computing with hands-on experience in production systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Traditional scientific course, High School Diploma, Traditional scientific course at Liceo Scientifico Enrico Fermi
Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Master's degree in Computer engineering, Computer networks and Cloud computing, Master's degree in Computer engineering, Computer networks and Cloud computing at Politecnico di Torino
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:55 commits, 46 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on enhancing the LaTeX integration within Xournal++. Their contributions included the implementation of real-time LaTeX rendering in the LatexDialog, enabling users to preview LaTeX equations as they type. Further enhancements involved fixing the LaTeX dialog's multiline entry, and addressing scaling issues for long LaTeX expressions. They also made several fixes regarding cursor and theme related improvements, showcasing experience in both UI and feature development.
First attempt at an efficient pathfinding algorithm in Java. I made this visualization to show the beauty of pathfinding. You can modify all major features of my algorithm through the graphics interface.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 comments in 5 years 7 months
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Luca Errani - Senior Software Engineer at Fiscozen