Silvano Luciani
Senior Director Of Engineering, Runtimes at Kong Inc.
San Sebastián, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSilvano Luciani is a senior engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer-facing runtimes and cloud SDKs, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering, Runtimes at Kong. He has led cross-functional teams at Kong and Shopify and spent a decade at Google contributing to Google Cloud SDK and numerous client libraries. A hands-on engineer at heart, Silvano has contributed code and examples to high-profile open-source projects like Google's JavaScript, Node.js, PHP and Python client libraries—improving APIs, query handling, and developer documentation. He combines backend, DevOps and product management experience, often translating API discovery document changes into stable library updates and smoother developer workflows. Based in San Sebastián, he brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience and robust runtime behavior across cloud and gateway products. An often-overlooked strength is his long track record of turning low-level bug fixes and documentation tweaks into measurable improvements in large-scale developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Camerino
Github Skills (18)
apim10
google-api10
google-cloud-platform10
javascript10
maintenance10
python10
datastore10
data-storage10
php10
api10
google-cloud10
html10
nodejs10
googleapis10
documentation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-api-php-client
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
A PHP client library for accessing Google APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1057 commits, 1 PR, 247 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Silvano's commits primarily involve updating the Google Pagespeedonline and Coordinate services within the Google API PHP Client library. These updates were triggered by changes in the discovery documents of the respective APIs, and involved modifications to classes and data structures within the library. The changes reflect the integration of new features and data structures exposed by the API. The user also updated the CloudMonitoring, Compute, Appsactivity, Genomics, GamesManagement, Games, AdSense, Doubleclicksearch, Gmail, Storage, and Reseller services, also in response to changes in their respective discovery documents.
php-clientflysystemgoogleclient-libraryphp
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Google Cloud Client Library for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 commits, 887 pushes, 19 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Silvano primarily contributed to improving the project's documentation and infrastructure. They added a coverage badge to the README, updated the documentation, and modified the contributing guidelines. Additionally, they implemented changes to the build process, specifically updating the documentation after merges to the master branch, and made adjustments to the storage API version. The user also made changes to the code for storage and added copyright headers.
gcpappenginepythongoogleclient-library
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