Luca Querella
Co-Founder at Bending Spoons
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Querella is a seasoned mobile-first entrepreneur and co-founder with 12 years of experience building and scaling consumer apps from Milan, Italy. As a founder of Bending Spoons he combines product vision with hands-on iOS engineering, helping the company reach tens of millions of downloads and millions of monthly active users. His background spans early engineering and lead roles at startups and enterprise clients, plus an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from IT University of Copenhagen. Luca remains an active open-source contributor—his work on the Katana-Swift framework shows deep attention to rendering architecture, memory management, and reusable UI primitives. He pairs an entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic code craftsmanship, often implementing core refactors himself rather than delegating. Fluent in shipping both polished UX and robust infrastructure, he thrives on ambitious teams solving hard mobile problems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English
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Github Skills (5)
web-framework10
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
redux8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BendingSpoons/katana-swift
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Swift Apps in a Swoosh! A modern framework for creating iOS apps, inspired by Redux.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:117 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Luca made several commits focused on refactoring and modifying the `Katana-Swift` framework, particularly concerning the `Node` and `Plastic` classes which are central to the framework's architecture. Their work involved code changes related to updating the rendering logic, managing children within the node structure, and improving core nodes. They also contributed to enhancing the button component and addressing potential memory leaks. The commits suggest a focus on improving the core structure and functionality of the framework, as well as creating a basic demo to demonstrate its capabilities.
unidirectional-data-flowswooshmodularitykatanaswift
lucaquerella/asana-alfred
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Asana plugin for Alfred
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
jenkins-api-pluginasanaakamaialfredalfred-workflow
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