Hire me

Hi! My name is Luca Pette (He/Him) and I'm an independent software developer (Go, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript) available for hire.

Check out my LinkedIn profile for a detailed overview of my work experience and education.

Why hire me?

Over the past two decades, I've run engineering teams in a wide variety of contexts: corporations, family-run businesses, early stage startups.
I gained experience building and running infrastructure, backend, data, frontend, and mobile systems.

In each of these contexts, a recurring theme emerged: I built many teams and systems from scratch which makes me a perfect fit to build your MVP.

I wrote detailed articles about both aspects of my career:

I also wrote a short book about engineering management called leading developers.

As a programmer, I'm the most fluent solving infrastructure, data, and backend problems. That's how I've spent most of my programming career.

While designing UI and UX is not my strong suit, I have lots of experience building JavaScript and TypeScript applications. I'm also very fond of React.

What am I looking for?

So apart from some dealbreakers, I can work in any capacity.

I get the most excited with infrastructure, especially development infrastructure like testing pipelines, build tools, or streaming data platforms since I have lots of experience with Apache Kafka, its ecosystem, and streaming platforms in general.

While I would advise you not to hire freelancers for leading your teams, I'm OK with ad-interim roles if a project excites me, and it's the right solution for your problem. Context is always key.

I prefer working on one large, difficult problem at a time over many simple problems one after the other. This kind of challenge often leads to a long-lasting mutually beneficial working relationship because this is where my technical and leadership skills converge.

I'm good at breaking down large problems into small, simple artifacts. I can write design proposals for them and coordinate the work.

Dealbreakers

While I enjoy working pretty much on any product, do not contact me for anything blockchain, and military related.

I also tend to say no to advertising related projects. I may want to make an exception if the following conditions are met:
  • The technological stack is highly relevant to me.
  • The goal of the project you want to hire me for is performance related. Making systems use less resources is climate friendly.

At the moment, I cannot take 40-hour per week contracts.