Luca Toscano
Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Toscano is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating scalable, production-grade systems for large organizations like Wikimedia Foundation and Amazon. He blends deep backend and DevOps skills—Kubernetes, KServe/Kubeflow, Hadoop, Druid, Kafka—with low-level and distributed programming to automate complex infrastructure and reduce operational toil. At Wikimedia he supports ML researchers and the core SRE team, while his prior Amazon role focused on fleet lifecycle and 24/7 availability practices. An active open-source contributor, Luca has improved stability and data handling in projects such as Apache Superset and helped harden cloud storage and TLS workflows in KServe. He pairs practical build-and-release fixes in big-data projects like Apache Bigtop with documentation and interoperability improvements for HTTPd, signaling both hands-on troubleshooting and attention to developer experience. Based in Bologna, he brings a systems-minded approach informed by internships and early work on IPv6 migration and large-scale web hosting.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Odone Belluzzi
Github Skills (51)
data-visualizations10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
debian10
pandas10
data-visualisation10
dockers10
cicd10
apache-superset10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
xml10
data-visualization10
documentation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
apache/httpd
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020
Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:473 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Apache HTTP Server. Their contributions include rebuilding documentation, updating translations, and adding new content such as an HTTP/2 howto. Additionally, they modified documentation style sheets and introduced a new panel to the module documentation pages to help users with bug reports and changelogs. The user's work indicates a focus on improving the clarity and accessibility of the server's documentation.
apache-httpapacheapache-http-serverhttpdhtaccess
apache/bigtop
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 35 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Luca's contributions primarily focused on improving the build process and resolving dependencies within the Bigtop project. They addressed issues related to OpenSSL compatibility on Debian, specifically concerning Spark 2.4's RPC encryption. They also modified build scripts to avoid jar duplication for Oozie and made changes to disable a Flume sink due to build failures. Furthermore, they updated the project's infrastructure, supporting Debian 11 and updating ca-certificates for CentOS 7 to address TLS certificate issues.
javaapachebig-databigtop
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