Luca Ongaro
Head Of Engineering at gastivo portal GmbH
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Ongaro is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience turning ideas into production software and building high-performing, distributed teams. Currently Head of Engineering at Gastivo Portal after co-founding and serving as CTO of Magaloop, he blends hands-on full-stack expertise—Ruby, Python/ML, JavaScript, Elixir, Scala—with product sensibility for retail and FMCG platforms. His background spans digital transformation and data-driven productization at ThoughtWorks and DaWanda, where he led recommender systems, mobile launches, and a move from monolith to service-oriented architecture. An active open-source maintainer, he contributed performance and tokenization features to the lightweight Minisearch JS engine and front-end improvements to jQCloud, reflecting a pragmatic focus on performant client and server code. With degrees in mechatronics engineering and innovation management, he combines engineering rigor with a scientific curiosity that fuels his interest in ML and AI applications for real-world businesses.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico "A. Banfi" Vimercate (MI)BSc Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, BSc Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoExchange Program Business, Exchange Program Business at The Ohio State University Fisher College of BusinessMSc Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology, MSc Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology at Università Bocconi
Italian, English
Github Skills (11)
plugin-development10
javascript10
full-text-search10
jquery10
testing10
typescript-types9
performance-optimization9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs8
css8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lucaong/minisearch
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 553 commits, 122 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luca implemented several features for the `minisearch` library, including a Map API, various performance improvements to the underlying radix tree data structure, a method to remove documents, and the ability to perform search queries using combined logic such as `AND_NOT`. The user also introduced and tested the functionality to support custom tokenization and term processing options. Furthermore, they have added a number of automated tests to improve test coverage.
autosuggestionedge-computingfulltext-searchfuzzy-searchbrowser
lucaong/jQCloud
Feb 2011 - Jul 2019
jQuery plugin for drawing neat word clouds that actually look like clouds
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:104 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributed to the development of the jQCloud plugin. Their work included adding example files to showcase the plugin's usage. They added the license information and versioning to the project, which can be seen in the source code. Additionally, the user fixed a typo in the example file and made some optimizations to the plugin.
lookjqueryjavascriptjquery-pluginclouds
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