Summary
Luca Milanesio is a CEO and seasoned software leader with 13+ years driving enterprise-grade development, DevOps and ALM practices for high‑transaction sectors like finance and telecom. He co-founded and led GerritForge, shaping Gerrit Code Review adoption and partnering with Google and large enterprises to industrialize Git-based workflows while remaining an active open-source contributor and international conference speaker. Hands-on across Java/Scala stacks, CI/CD (Jenkins/Hudson), Elasticsearch/Kafka and modern microservices, he blends product vision with deep implementation experience from systems programming to cloud services. Notably, his career spans both technical leadership—designing mission-critical architectures and SDLC transformations at Vodafone, HMRC and Barclays—and low-level work in C/C++ and security platforms, reflecting rare full-stack breadth. Based in London with a PhD in Information Technology, he pairs academic depth with pragmatic delivery and a track record of turning open-source projects into commercial, enterprise-grade solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IBM/889 – Enterprise Solutions Using IBM Tivoli Security, IBM/889 – Enterprise Solutions Using IBM Tivoli Security at IBM Certification - WSTC
PhD, Information Technology, PhD, Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Torino
IBM/664 – SOA Fundamentals, IBM/664 – SOA Fundamentals at IBM Certification
English, Italian, French, Spanish