Vicente De Luca
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Zillow
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVicente De Luca is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer based in San Francisco with 25+ years of infrastructure and software experience and over a decade of enterprise cloud leadership. He has driven global networking and platform initiatives at Zendesk—authoring cloud-native network solutions, leading Istio service mesh adoption, and playing a central role in multiple acquisitions and the 2024 Ultimate.ai integration—now continuing his strategic infrastructure work at Zillow. Known for turning complex network challenges into automated, scalable systems, he founded an ISP in Brazil and holds a patent for a multi-cloud L3 connectivity solution that underscores his systems-level thinking. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Redis integration in high-performance network tooling like FastNetMon, reflecting his blend of low-level networking expertise and backend engineering. Peers rely on him for rapid, high-stakes decision making during severe incidents, and he pairs that calm decisiveness with a track record of platform enablement and cost-savings at web scale.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Universidade Federal de Lavras
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ddos10
redis10
back-end-development9
configuration-management9
netflow7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
FastNetMon - very fast DDoS sensor with sFlow/Netflow/IPFIX/SPAN support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Vicente's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Redis integration within the FastNetMon project. Their contributions involve adding and fixing the "redis_prefix" feature, enabling users to specify a prefix for Redis keys. This includes modifying the configuration loading logic to read the prefix and updating the code to utilize the prefix when storing data in Redis, such as attack information and flow dumps. The changes demonstrate a clear focus on improving the project's integration with Redis for data storage and retrieval.
servicenowddos-sensorspansensorddos-monitor
zenvdeluca/net_healer
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:426 commits, 17 PRs, 254 pushes in 9 months
collectorsfastnetmonreportsddoshealer
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