Luca Zulian is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Milan with 11 years building resilient, distributed systems and a strong focus on Elixir, Phoenix and functional design. He has driven backend platforms and infrastructure at scaling startups and product teams—shaping microservices in Elixir and Rust, CQRS/event-sourced workflows, and AWS/Kubernetes automation. Luca’s recent work includes ingest pipelines for live sports data and automating expense flows in large Elixir monoliths, combining pragmatic reliability with developer ergonomics. He mentors teams on incident response and Elixir best practices and has pushed LiveView beyond internal tooling into user-facing products. Known for a playful hacker mindset on GitHub, he balances craftsmanship with an appetite for accumulating “tech debt” that ships features quickly.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Electrical and advanced industrial automation, High School Diploma Electrical and advanced industrial automation at ITT Eugenio Barsanti
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