lucavallinHello,
Luca here.
I build the platform layer beneath AI — Go, Google Cloud and Kubernetes by day. The rest of this place is everything else I get up to: writing, open source, motorcycle videos, photography, a handpan, and two cats.
that's me ☺
@akegruna
co-workersLatest from the blog
Every AI Tool on Google Cloud, and When to Use It
Every major AI tool on Google Cloud as of November 2026, after the Vertex AI rename: what each one is for, when to use it, and what changed this year.
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How I Actually Use Claude Code
My Claude Code setup: CLAUDE.md as a contract, tests and CI as gates, the skills, plugins and MCP servers that earn their place, and how to build the same.
AI Engineering for Developers
A tour through AI engineering for developers who already know how to ship software. Fourteen chapters, no LinkedIn voice, no slow warm-up. We will go from 'what is a foundation model' to 'how do you run agents in production on Google Cloud' without skipping the parts that matter.
Platform Engineering End-to-End
Platform engineering is more than DevOps with a portal. This post walks the full arc of the discipline end to end: why platforms exist, how to build and operate them, how to manage the messy stakeholder politics, and what success actually looks like. Grounded in Fournier and Nowland's book and a few years of doing this on real systems.
Google Cloud Networking 101: The Comprehensive TLDR
A comprehensive but quick walkthrough of everything you need to know about GCP networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, Shared VPC, GKE networking, load balancing, Cloud NAT, hybrid connectivity, VPC Service Controls, DNS, packet inspection, and how to operate all of it. Written for engineers who need a solid mental model in 15 minutes.
Everything else I get up to
Projects
Apps & open source — including Qroda, my ride-recording iPhone app, and Verto.
Browse projects →![PASSO MAURIA | MOTO GUZZI V85TT | POV PURE SOUND [4K]](/_next/image?url=%2Fvideos%2FuttwDb8-GEQ.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Rides on video
POV motorcycle rides through the Dolomites, on YouTube as @akegruna.
Watch the rides →Photography
Landscapes & details, also on Unsplash. Free for anyone to use.
See the gallery →Mentoring
Top Mentor on MentorCruise — career, cloud-native and open source.
How mentoring works →The cats
Two senior engineers who specialise in keyboard QA & litterbox ops.
Meet the team →Record your rides,
share them beautifully.
Qroda turns motorcycle and bicycle rides into striking map posters — GPS track, speed, lean angle and weather, captured on the road. Private by design: no accounts, no servers, everything stays on your iPhone. It lives at qroda.lucavallin.com.
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