About Me

Tech Lead, Architect, Developer and DevOps Engineer with over 14 years experience including 7 years in the FinTech industry.

Certifications

Expertise

Docker

Over 5 years experience using Docker for all aspects of engineering.

From development environments running Ansible, MariaDB, Java, Fluentd, etc.

Bamboo agents running on Kubernetes, automated CI/CD pipelines and Docker registries on JFrog.

Cloud

Over 5 years experience with Cloud technolgies including AWS.

Getting the most out of the cloud is not about lifting a shifting existing VMs to the cloud, it's about leveraging Cloud technologies, especially serverless services like AWS S3, CloudFront, Lambda, Cognito and API Gateway.

Even this website runs on AWS using 100% serverless technologies.

Java

Over 10 years exerience with Java. Including TDD with JUnit and Mockito, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Transactions, Spring AOP and many more.

I've modernised monolithic applications with Spring, refactored complex multiple module Maven projects and create many successful high quality features for end users.

I've upgraded applications from JDK 5 to JDK 6, JDK 6 to JDK 8 and JDK 8 to JDK 11.

Agile

Over 4 years exerience with Agile. Including an Agile workshop with renowned Agile coach Geoff Watts.

Extensive experience of Scrum ceremonies like Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, Spring Reviews and Standups.

Helping agile teams to meet the needs of the business by running Story Time sessions to look ahead in the project, Forecast refining sessions and Story Mapping sessions to uncover risks.

DevOps

Over 5 years experience with DevOps practices.

I've used many tools that enable DevOps practices including Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible. I also have lots of experience building development environments that use the same tools Operations use which enables collabroation between developers and IT ops and break down the wall between them.

The Phoenix Project and the accompanying book The DevOps Handbook are two of my favourite books on DevOps and highly recommend them.

Tech Lead

Over 5 years exerience leading the techincal direction of projects.

I've lead the techinical direction of many projects, including large refactoring projects of monolithic applications, performance optimisations improvements, feature creation and R&D projects. As a Tech Lead i've helped less experienced developers and architects improve their abilities and understanding of development and architectural best practices. I've run workshops with large groups on technical topics and presented many times to groups between 5 and 100 people.

Databases

Over 10 years experience with many databases, including 3 years as a DB2 Database Administrator.

I've have extensive experience with MySQL, MariaDB and DB2. From SQL, Table designs, Indexes, compression, encryption, migration, bufferpool design, tablespace design and tuning for performance. I also have experience with other Databases like MongoDB, Redis, H2 and PostgreSQL.

What People Say

  • Paddy Carroll | Director of IT | CloudPay

    "Luciano is a thoughtful architect with a big picture perspective, he has the ability to see beyond immediate issues to strategic objectives and the personal qualities to realise those ends. Luciano is also an accomplished hands on technologist with a wide grasp of many technologies from java based business applications, messaging, data persistence, DevOps ,containers and orchestration through SDLC and CI. He's great at communicating his ideas and he's great to work with and I'd recommend him to any team."

  • Shinoj Kumaran | Head of Test and Product Manager | CloudPay

    "We had an urgent need for performance tuning and technical re-design for one of our major product initiative. Luciano was happy to step-in and offer his help as technical architect. He learned the complex system very quickly, did a technical investigation and solved the performance tuning issues. His way of looking at a problem from different angles and ability to come up with great technical design that precisely satisfy functional complexities are impressive. What I appreciate the most is, he not only approach it from pure technical point of view; but he work closely with PO to understand the product functional needs before solutioning. His sense of responsibility and commitment towards driving the technical re-design roadmap with developers and guiding them thru-out the process until our product launch was remarkable."

  • Luke Huxley | Systems Architect | CloudPay

    "Luciano has years of knowledge developing against Java-based SaaS applications built on SOA platforms. Using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS services over the past few years, he has been working on applications developed for a microservice architecture and, trickier, hybrid SOA / microservice architectures. He keeps up with the industry and is always learning something new, focusing on industry-proven technologies and methodologies. Luciano is analytical and objective, methodical and patient and is able to see past red-herrings and get to the meat of business and technical challenges."

  • Mark Johnson | Senior Product Owner | CloudPay

    "Luciano has always been an invaluable member of the team, in any project we've partnered on. He has the ability to articulate problems and solutions clearly to all levels/competencies of the organization and back-up conclusions with documented and concise research; can work decisively and effectively supporting or leading a team; and is someone you can genuinely rely on. Luciano has been a real leader in helping to shape CloudPays evolution of it's technology platform and development practices. He will be an asset for any organization he works for."

  • Jeremy Moult | Senior Java Developer | CloudPay

    "I have worked with Luciano for about 3 years and consider him to be an extremely competent and knowledgeable Architect/Developer. He has a strong base programming knowledge to which he adds a keen interest and expertise in many aspects of devops. He has been instrumental in designing, implementing and streamlining our development and delivery processes. I believe he will be a positive asset to any organization, with a focus to doing high quality work in an efficient manner. "

Contact Me

Please send me an email or reach out on LinkedIn. Many Thanks