Luciano Strika is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft in Redmond with nine years of experience building production systems that bridge machine learning and engineering. Trained with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires, he has driven fraud-prevention ML work at Mercado Libre—shipping deep learning, XGBoost and anomaly-detection models that materially improved business KPIs. At Microsoft he contributes to Word Copilot across server-side and front-end stacks while continuing to deepen expertise in deep learning and retrieval-focused data structures. A pragmatic Pythonist who enjoys applying probability and common sense to messy data, he also contributes to notable open-source projects like cheat.sh where he has refactored backend tooling for clarity and maintainability. Outside engineering he studies languages and plays German-style board games, a hint at his methodical but curious problem-solving style.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
First Certificate Exam Literatura inglesa (británica y de la Commonwealth), First Certificate Exam Literatura inglesa (británica y de la Commonwealth) at Kell's Institute of English
Highschool Humanities, Highschool Humanities at Escuela Cristiana Evangelica Argentina
B. Sc. + M. Sc. Computer Science, B. Sc. + M. Sc. Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Luciano primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code related to the `cheat.sh` backend. They made several changes to the `lib/beautifier.py` file, including adding constants, abstracting functions, and cleaning up code. The user also refactored various functions within `lib/get_answer.py`, aiming for better readability and maintainability. Further improvements were made in `lib/limits.py` and `lib/colorize_internal.py` to enhance the code's structure.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 months
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Luciano Strika - Software Engineer II at Microsoft