Luca Prete
Strategic Cloud Engineer
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Prete is a Strategic Cloud Engineer based in Milan with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native and SDN infrastructures across research, public sector, and enterprise environments. At Google he combines hands-on Terraform and GCP expertise with strategic customer engagements, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules and cloud-foundation-fabric to extend Terraform support for GCP networking and GKE. His background ranges from founding a tech startup to leading platform deployments at ONF and advising Italy’s digital transformation initiatives, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and large-scale delivery chops. Comfortable from low-level network architecture to automation pipelines, he repeatedly turns complex deployment requirements into reusable infrastructure-as-code modules. Notably, his work often focuses on simplifying operational processes and enabling repeatable landing zones and ILB/network features that bridge research prototypes to production.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Math and Science High School Degree, Math and science, Math and Science High School Degree, Math and science at Liceo scientifico G. GiorgiBechelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bechelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science at University Milano BicoccaFirst Level Master’s Degree in Internet technologies, College of Engineering, First Level Master’s Degree in Internet technologies, College of Engineering at University of Pisa, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (15)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
cloud-infrastructure10
google-cloud10
aac10
networking10
terraform10
gcp10
testing9
go9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
yaml7
python4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-fabric
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
End-to-end modular samples and landing zones toolkit for Terraform on GCP.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:136 reviews, 29 commits, 158 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributed to the infrastructure as code (IaC) aspects of the project using Terraform, focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. Their commits include updates to copyright headers, removal of unused IAM policies, and fixes for test failures. They also implemented new modules and features, such as the HTTP Internal Load Balancer (ILB) module, network tag support, and the ability to export/import custom routes, which demonstrates a deep understanding of GCP networking and infrastructure provisioning.
gcpvultrcdrend-to-endvcenter
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:64 reviews, 7 commits, 34 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributed to the Terraform configuration of Google Cloud Platform resources. They focused on adding new arguments to existing resources, specifically related to compute router interfaces and logging metrics. Their work included creating and modifying test cases for the new features and expanding existing example configurations. Additionally, the user made updates to the Kubernetes Engine (GKE) node pool configurations, allowing labels to be updated and supporting the deployment of a router appliance instance.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
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