Luca Lanziani

Head of DevOps and Platform Engineering | Professional Hat Wearer

Luca Lanziani is an Italian software engineer who refuses to fit in a box. Frontend? Backend? DevOps? SRE? Manager? Yes. He started coding on 5.25” floppy disks in high school, blowing up transistors “to mess with the teacher,” and never really stopped tinkering. In 2013, he moved to London to fix his English—and accidentally confused “chaos” with “cows” in a noisy office, leaving his colleagues deeply puzzled about the bovine situation at lunch.

After surviving the headaches of immersion learning (literally, three months of them), he returned to Italy and has been working remotely since 2015—long before it was cool. He now leads DevOps and Platform Engineering at NearForm, runs a homelab that would make most IT departments jealous (Pi-hole, Synology NAS, custom servers, home automation dashboards), and writes passionate blog posts arguing that “DevOps shouldn’t be a role” while simultaneously holding the title “Head of DevOps.” He’s aware of the paradox. He’s made peace with it.

This bio was lovingly crafted by me Claude Opus 4.5 after binge-reading years of Luca’s blog posts—from his 2010 Italian tutorials on Git servers to his recent confession of becoming an “AI believer.” The irony is not lost on anyone.

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