Luca Vecchi
Software Engineer at Picnic Technologies
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Vecchi is a versatile software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in Python-driven full-stack development, data pipeline industrialization, and cloud architecture on AWS. He combines hands-on skills in React, TypeScript, FastAPI and Kubernetes with DevOps practices—Docker and CI/CD—delivering seamless developer workflows and production-ready services. Luca has shipped solutions across startups and consultancies, led a small tech venture as Managing Partner, and now contributes to engineering efforts at Picnic and BID Company. An active open-source contributor, he completed the Italian localization for the widely used OpenSourcePOS project, demonstrating attention to internationalization and user-facing detail. Based in Amsterdam, he brings an adventurous, boundary-pushing mindset from mountaineering and travel into pragmatic engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Github Skills (7)
localization10
italia10
translation10
php9
bootstrap4
codeigniter4
point-of-sale3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opensourcepos/opensourcepos
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:39 commits, 6 comments, 3 issues in 16 days
Contributions summary:Luca's commits primarily focused on translating the application's user interface into Italian. They utilized Weblate for the translation process, updating various language files (e.g., employees_lang.php, migrate_lang.php, config_lang.php, sales_lang.php, receivings_lang.php, expenses_categories_lang.php, common_lang.php, customers_lang.php, bootstrap_tables_lang.php, datepicker_lang.php, taxes_lang.php, suppliers_lang.php, expenses_lang.php, giftcards_lang.php, item_kits_lang.php, and items_lang.php). Their contributions involved translating strings and ensuring 100% completion of the Italian language pack for the application.
point-of-saleuser-interfacecodeignitersalemysql
lucailvec/GRBL_TO_REPRAP
Oct 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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