Luca Bello

Contact: GitHub | Email
Languages: 🇮🇹 Italian (native) | 🇬🇧 English (C2) | 🇫🇷 French (A2) | 🇩🇪 German (A1) | 🇧🇷 Portuguese (A1)
Areas of Expertise: Observability, Project Management, CI/CD, Data Science, Open Source
Main Programming Languages: Python, Go, Scala, C, C++, Bash, SQL

💻 Experience

⋄ Software Engineer @ Canonical

📅 2022-now | 📍 (remote), 🇩🇪 Germany

Part of the Observability team at Canonical, developing a resilient and scalable cloud-native monitoring stack, leveraging best-in-class open-source software, allowing for a seamless end-user experience and smooth admin operations.

Accomplishments:

  • CI/CD infrastructure: single-handedly designed and implemented department-wide automations, setting new standards of quality for our software and engineering processes.
  • Testing architecture: re-designed our testing approach with feature-first semantics and parallelization, cutting our test times by 125%.
  • Threat Modeling: directed the team discourse on security, performing preventive CVE scanning and spear-heading the company guidelines on vulnerability response.

Programming Languages: Python, Go, Bash
Relevant Software: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Alertmanager, Grafana Agent, Opentelemetry Collector, Blackbox Exporter, Prometheus Pushgateway
Technologies: Juju, Terraform, Kubernetes, Snapcraft

⋄ Junior Fellow @ CERN

📅 2020-2022 | 📍 Genève, 🇨🇭 Switzerland

Part of the CERN IT Monitoring team, operating both internally over CERN’s data center operations and externally over the WLCG (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid), with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Accomplishments:

  • IT Department monitoring: Designed, developed and maintained a large-scale high-availability infrastructure to take care of the entire monitoring data pipeline, including data ingestion, cleaning, aggregation, visualization and alerting.
  • Contributed to open-source projects while investigating and researching new technologies to further improve the current infrastructure.

Programming Languages: Scala, Python, SQL, Bash
Relevant Software: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Cortex, Alertmanager, Kafka, Flume
Technologies: Puppet, Kubernetes, Flux, Helm

🎓 Education

⋄ MSc in Data Science @ PoliTo

📅 2018-2020 | 📍 Torino, 🇮🇹 Italy + Göteborg, 🇸🇪 Sweden

Politecnico di Torino, with Erasmus at Chalmers University. Final Mark: 110/110 with honors.

📚 Master Thesis

⋄ BSc in Computer Engineering @ PoliTo

📅 2015-2018 📍 Torino, 🇮🇹 Italy

Attended the excellence program “Young Talents”, which collects the top tier talents of the university.

Final Mark: 110/110 with honors.

🗞️ Publications

⋄ Compressed computations using Wavelets for Hidden Markov Models with continuous observations @ PLOS One

📅 June 6, 2023 | 👤 Bello L, Wiedenhöft J, Schliep A | 📍 Torino, 🇮🇹 Italy

🗞️ Publication

📚 Further Education

⋄ CyberChallenge.IT @ CINI

📅 2018 | 🏛️ Italian Cybersecurity Nationl Lab

Training program in cybersecurity, vulnerabilities and ethical hacking. I was chosen to represent Politecnico di Torino in a national cybersecurity competition (Attack-Defense CTF) in Rome.

⋄ Entrepeneurship @ EIA

📅 2017 | 🏛️ European Innovation Academy

Startup accelerator with participants from 70+ countries and over 100 startups formed. Acquired strong experience in leadership, communication and planning.

🌻 Open Source Projects

⋄ casey/just snap

📅 2024 - now | 🔗 snapcraft.io/just

Unofficial snap package for casey/just.

⋄ Kangaroo Docs

📅 Mar 2019 - Sep 2019 | 📁 Archived | 🔗 lucabello/kangaroo-docs

Collaborative rich text editor with support for account creation and file storage.

⋄ Lucy

📅 Mar 2018 - Sep 2018 | 📁 Archived | 🔗 Website

Smart walk-in closet in the context of an Ambient Intelligence system.

📜 Conference Speaker bio

Software engineer in love with the open source world.

My work experience is fully in Observability: I started my career at CERN, monitoring extremely-large-scale distributed systems (including international computing grids) and serving the data-sciency needs of their IT department. Today, I’m part of the Observability team at Canonical, working on open-source solutions in the Juju ecosystem to make the wonders of great observability easily available to everyone.

Oh, and I like cute things – I really like cute things.

🎙️ Talks and Presentations

  • KubeCon NA 2023: React before your users do: adding Observability
  • KubeCon EU 2024: Observability: Showcasing COS Lite and what you can do with it
  • Grafana&Friends Munich 2024: COS: a Charming solution to Observability