Luca Pascarella
Associate Professor
Bellinzona, Ticino, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Pascarella is an associate professor and software engineer with a decade of experience at the intersection of software architecture, embedded systems, and AI-driven tooling. He combines academic rigor—from a PhD at TU Delft and postdoctoral work on NLP/LLMs—with hands-on product delivery as a founder and head of engineering building cloud-to-IoT platforms and low-power embedded solutions. His research on applying deep learning and LLMs to software engineering tasks has led to publications on code recommendation, log generation, and automated testing, while his industry work emphasizes secure, energy-conscious IoT architectures (MQTT, TLS, client certs). Luca teaches robotics and embedded programming, mentors project-based learning on DL for constrained devices, and repeatedly translates research methods into market-ready products. An avid motorcyclist, he leverages travel to fuel curiosity and practical problem framing that shifts development from intuition to evidence-driven engineering. He blends entrepreneurship, teaching, and research into a rare profile that ships resilient systems and publishes top-venue work.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer science engineering. Master Degree, Master’s Degree Computer science engineering. Master Degree at Università degli Studi del Sannio-BeneventoPostdoctoral Researcher | Lecturer Low-Power Embedded System | Robot, Postdoctoral Researcher | Lecturer Low-Power Embedded System | Robot at ETH ZürichPostdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher at USI Università della Svizzera italianaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
msr10
python8
git6
harmony5
azerothcore3
multicore3
cubing3
sdn2
ospf2
trinitycore2
bootloader1
prediction1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lucapascarella/code-review-test
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Simple repository for testing code review
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
testingcode-testingreview
lucapascarella/RingBuffer
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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