Luca Roffia
Chief Executive Officer at University of Bologna
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLuca Roffia is a CEO and academic entrepreneur who transforms semantic web, IoT, and digital twin research into practical, human-centered products as co-founder and CEO of VAIMEE and long-time software engineer at the University of Bologna. With a PhD in Computer Engineering and two decades of European research projects behind him, he specializes in interoperability—making sensors, databases, and people speak a shared language to tackle sustainability, education, and disaster management. He has moved seamlessly between academia and industry as an adjunct professor, researcher, and startup leader, bringing scientific rigor to product design and open-data practices. His work uniquely combines immersive educational tools and agricultural tech, from smart irrigation to urban farming, showing a knack for making invisible system dynamics tangible. Known for framing interoperability as a human challenge, he builds tools that empower diverse users—farmers, students, and municipal planners alike—to make better decisions. Based in Bologna, he remains driven by curiosity and collaboration, favoring pragmatic, cross-disciplinary solutions over buzzword-driven architectures.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Github Skills (42)
publish-subscribe10
rdf-store10
interoperability10
web-of-things10
semantic-web10
push-notifications10
java10
rdf10
endpoint10
sparql10
sepa8
jsonp7
internet-of-things7
js-client7
jsinterop6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vaimee/SEPA-Java-Dashboard
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
A dashboard for testing SEPA apps. The dashboard allows to perform updates, subscriptions and queries stored in a JSAP file
Contributions:45 commits, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
storedtestingsubscriptionsupdatessepa
arces-wot/SEPAview
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 51 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.