lucavallinHi, I'm Luca.
Platform Engineer · GDE · CNCF Ambassador
Platform Engineer at Xebia, focused on AI platform engineering - the infrastructure behind reliable, observable, scalable AI and cloud-native workloads. I work primarily in Go and Google Cloud, with deep experience in Kubernetes, containers, and end-to-end observability - and a strong interest in networking and lower-level systems work in Rust. My current focus is the platform layer beneath AI: inference serving infrastructure on Kubernetes, AI gateway and MCP connectivity, agentic workload orchestration, and end-to-end observability for GenAI systems.
My broader experience is full-stack: strong on backend, with solid frontend and mobile knowledge. I contribute to open source, write on my blog, and pick up the occasional talk, training, or meetup when something interesting comes up. I'm a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and a CNCF Ambassador.
For a deeper dive, see my blog. If you're new to open source, check out verto.sh. For mentorship, I'm on Mentorcruise. Outside of work, activities like photography, motorcycling, playing a handpan and cleaning litterboxes keep me occupied 🐈.
What I'm doing now
- Building inference-serving infra & AI gateways on Kubernetes
- Building a secret app 🤫
- Mentoring engineers on MentorCruise
- Editing the next motorcycle video
The cats 🐈
Two senior staff engineers specialising in keyboard QA, 4am stand-ups and litterbox operations. Officially un-fireable. They keep me occupied — and humble.
Want to talk cloud-native, careers or open source?
I mentor engineers one-to-one — from breaking into the industry to going deep on platform engineering and contributing to open source.
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