Luca Pette
Fractional CTO at Freelance
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLuca Pette is a Fractional CTO and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building teams and systems from scratch across startups, scale-ups and corporate environments. He is strongest in infrastructure, backend and data engineering, having designed and led the production migration of a scalable messaging platform that was later open-sourced as Airy. Comfortable shipping code and shaping strategy, Luca pairs hands-on execution (Terraform/AWS, Kafka, ZeroMQ) with hiring and culture-building—at Marley Spoon he grew product development from ~10 to 25 while preserving work-life balance. A pragmatic programmer who admits to liking to delete code, he also contributes to OSS projects spanning editor tooling, testing frameworks and Kafka UIs, with a mix of backend and frontend fixes. Based in Berlin, he publishes thoughtful essays on programming and engineering management that reveal a reflective, principle-driven approach.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Informatica, Laurea Informatica at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
English, Italian, German, neapolitan
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
vimscript10
testing10
rspec10
kafka10
test-framework10
dynamic10
regex10
ui-design10
ruby10
vim10
uid10
front-end-development10
windows-gui10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tchiotludo/akhq
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Kafka GUI for Apache Kafka to manage topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more...
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Kafka GUI project. Their commits involved fixing UI configuration issues to ensure correct code formatting, fixing eslint warnings, and refactoring UI components for improved style and maintainability. They also contributed to the creation and modification of UI elements, specifically addressing typo issues and optimizing the application's user interface. This included changes across multiple components, indicating a broad focus on improving the UI and user experience of the Kafka GUI.
kafka-uiapache-kafkaschema-registrykafka-toolsrethinkdb
rspec/rspec-expectations
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Provides a readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on implementing and refining output matchers within the RSpec testing framework. They introduced and iterated on matchers for standard output and standard error streams, adding support for various expectations like string and regular expression matching. The contributions included writing shared examples and associated tests to ensure the proper functioning of these new matchers, improving the test suite. Additionally, the user refactored the code, introducing separate classes for the two streams, and made the syntax 1.8 compatible.
apiexpressjsreadablejavascriptexpress
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