Luca Restagno is a delivery architect and serial founder with 13 years of experience helping startups and SMBs turn support load into growth through AI-powered knowledge access and efficient engineering delivery. Currently at Nearform, he combines hands-on software craftsmanship with people leadership to align teams and accelerate outcomes, while also shipping product kits and AI chatbots through his startups Shipped and Userdesk. He has deep full-stack experience—from GraphQL backend integrations to console UX—highlighted by contributions to the popular Hasura GraphQL Engine where he worked on database integrations and developer-facing console features. Based in Lombardy, Italy, Luca blends academic grounding in media engineering with a history of leading remote teams and shipping pragmatic, scalable solutions that keep humans focused on high-value work. An eye for developer experience and productization ties his engineering practice to measurable business impact like improved conversions and reduced support costs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Media Engineering, Master in Media Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 64 commits, 35 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributed to the Hasura GraphQL engine, specifically focusing on customizing GQL fields, integrating new databases, and improving the console functionality. They worked on front-end aspects of data source management by adding features such as auto generated columns and also by creating the ability to create tables through raw SQL. The user's work involved modifications to both front-end components and back-end database-related functionalities.
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