Luca Marturana

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in product development and system design. Proven track record of leading teams, architecting scalable solutions, and driving technical innovation across various domains including fintech and observability. Interested in AI, Personal Finance and Legal Tech.

Experience

Software Engineer

Self-employed

Sep 2024 - Present

Catania, Italy

Helping companies build software and teams and exploring new business ideas.

Career Break

Dec 2023 - Sep 2024

Catania, Italy

Taking a break after 11 years in the industry. Spent this time raising my kids, doing more exercise, sleep - and exploring business ideas.

Brex

San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
  • Revamped billing system and worked across cross-functional teams
  • Led the Card Fraud team to ship automation for fraud transactions and modernized dispute management (90% reduction in CX cases)
  • Led the next-generation global payments platform to unify money movement across all products, cutting time to market for new products by 50%
  • Led team implementation of a new banking partner for Brex Cash product
  • Led multi-team effort to implement initial version of Global Reimbursements
  • Served as group tech lead of 3 teams with 20 engineers and mentored engineers

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
  • Led backend development for Rewards points to airline miles conversion
  • Led design and execution of a new onboarding platform
  • Served as tech lead for rewards and onboarding platforms

Member of Technical Staff

Holloway

May 2018 - Feb 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

  • Founding backend and infrastructure engineer
  • Re-architected production infrastructure from a one-off setup to a fully automated architecture using CircleCI, AWS Beanstalk and AWS Batch
  • Built various features on document building pipeline: blog posts, dictionary, SEO optimized pages

Sysdig

San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering Manager

Mar 2017 - May 2018
  • Led a newly created Agent Team
  • Hired and onboarded 4 people and supported their growth
  • Helped product team to assess requirements and shape roadmap
  • Led Kubernetes Refactoring project: designed refactoring of codebase from C++ to Golang
  • Led Swarm integration: prototyped integration in Golang and guided team implementation
  • Led Prometheus integration: worked on design and guided implementation

Software Engineer

Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
  • Lead engineer on Sysdig Agent project: developing zero to 1 major features, managing releases, support issues troubleshooting/fixing
  • Developed automatic Java application metrics collection
  • Integrated statsd server with kernel-level metric interception
  • Created plugin bridge for diverse application metric collection
  • Developed and patented ContainerVision technology for seamless container integration
  • Speaker at Kubecon, Qcon and various conferences across Europe and USA

Software Engineer

A-Tono

Apr 2012 - Oct 2014
  • Built high-performance message router handling 100k+ daily messages with complex routing rules
  • Implemented high-capacity SMS API services
  • Developed carrier payment integration for mobile ticketing
  • Led migration from QPID to RabbitMQ and MongoDB to Redis
  • Implemented fast phone number carrier mapping database for 32M+ entries
  • Led service migration from Python/C++ to pure C++
  • Configured and managed RabbitMQ and Redis clusters

Skills

Team Leadership System Design Distributed Systems Ruby on Rails TypeScript C++

Education

Master degree in Computer Engineering

2010 - 2012

University of Catania

Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering

2007 - 2010

University of Catania