Luca Ferrari
Co-Founder & CEO at Bending Spoons
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Ferrari is a serial founder and technology CEO with 14 years of experience building product-led companies from Milan, best known for co-founding Bending Spoons and earlier startups. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly PostgreSQL, Perl, and backend systems—with strategic leadership and a history at McKinsey that sharpened his operational rigor. An active open-source contributor, Luca has improved tools like perlbrew and contributed deep PostgreSQL testing work (pgtap), reflecting a rare mix of low-level database expertise and pragmatic tooling. He aims to spark cultural and economic change in Italy, pairing ambitious vision with a track record of shipping reliable, maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, M.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Università degli Studi di PadovaTechnical University of Denmark
Italian, English
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
algorithms10
develop10
postgresql10
testing10
command-line-interface10
databases10
solve10
distributed-systems10
perl10
solution10
sql10
raku10
unit-test10
database10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:643 commits, 204 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributes to the Perl Weekly Challenge by providing solutions for various coding challenges using Raku. Their work involves implementing algorithms and problem-solving approaches to complete the tasks, with a focus on writing concise code. The contributions demonstrate a focus on programming logic, and creating algorithms for common programming exercises.
nim-langknowledge-baseemacsmemberszig
gugod/App-perlbrew
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 18 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `app-perlbrew` repository, a tool for managing Perl installations. Their contributions centered around adding new features, specifically a `clone-modules` command to copy modules between Perl installations, and extending the existing `available` command. They refactored code, added methods, and improved the output format for displaying available Perl versions and their installation sources. Additionally, the user improved the listing and sorting of Perl versions.
installationsperl
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