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Luca Atella — Curriculum Vitae

Backend Engineer · Platform Architect · Systems Designer
Italy (remote) · Email: info@atellaluca.com · GitHub: github.com/atellaluca

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Profile

Backend engineer with strong experience in modular system design, runtime validation, and integration-heavy platforms.
I focus on building introspective systems that normalize heterogeneous inputs, enforce explicit contracts, and remain evolvable over time.

I am the creator of ImportSpy, an open-source runtime contract engine for Python, and I designed a plugin-governed backend platform for heterogeneous IoT ecosystems.
My work sits at the intersection of software architecture, secure systems design, and real-time data pipelines.

Core Strengths

  • Platform backend architecture (integration-first)
  • Plugin-based systems and modular execution boundaries
  • Runtime contracts, validation, and invariants
  • Event-driven and real-time pipelines
  • API design (REST) and streaming (WebSocket)
  • Operational tooling, containerization, orchestration

Work Experience

Technical Lead · Software Architect — Vemar S.A.S.

Apr 2021 – Oct 2024

  • Designed and developed a modular backend framework in Python (Flask + MongoDB) enabling plugin-based extension of REST APIs and unified data persistence
  • Architected the full plugin lifecycle: discovery, structural validation, runtime integration, and contract enforcement
  • Defined a unified device model to normalize heterogeneous IoT devices into a common schema
  • Built an event-driven pipeline with real-time updates for frontend dashboards
  • Designed and maintained Docker images for the full ecosystem, enabling reproducible deployment and scaling
  • Structured a distributed ecosystem of 8 independent services, including a marketplace of generated web services
  • Designed UML models, ER diagrams, and database layers (MongoDB + PostgreSQL)
  • Led a team of 3 developers, coordinating architecture decisions and backend development workflows
  • Participated in FLUIDOMOS (Horizon Europe), integrating the backend platform into an edge–cloud orchestration framework for decentralized IoT control

Selected Projects

ImportSpy — Runtime Contract Engine (Open Source)

Oct 2024 – Present

  • Designed and built a runtime import contract engine for Python
  • Introduced a declarative contract model (SpyModel) for enforcing structural and contextual constraints at import time
  • Implemented validation over CPU architecture, OS, interpreter, environment variables, Python version, classes, functions, and method signatures
  • Built high-performance validation logic compatible with embedded runtimes, CI/CD pipelines, and latency-sensitive systems
  • Maintained the full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, documentation, packaging, and release automation
  • Reached 15K+ installs on PyPI and organic adoption in secure and modular Python systems

Unified Backend Platform (SAFE Case Study)

  • Designed a plugin-governed backend platform for heterogeneous IoT devices
  • Implemented centralized CRUD, REST APIs, WebSocket updates, and pub/sub pipelines
  • Defined a declarative UI schema (Widget DSL) to decouple frontend rendering from device specifics
  • Introduced runtime plugin validation using ImportSpy
  • Built CLI workflows for testing, packaging, Docker image generation, and Kubernetes deployments
  • Reduced integration complexity and accelerated development time by ~200%

Real-Time Fleet Telemetry Backend (SAFE Case Study)

  • Built a real-time ingestion backend over persistent socket connections
  • Normalized heterogeneous telemetry into versioned schemas
  • Implemented runtime validation and structured diagnostics for data quality
  • Exposed fleet state via REST APIs and real-time streams
  • Designed for unreliable networks, scalability, and predictable failure handling

Education

BSc in Computer Science and Technology (L-31) — University of Basilicata
2018 – Present

High School Diploma in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, and Automation — I.I.S. Einstein–De Lorenzo, Potenza
2013 – 2018

Cisco Networking Academy (CCNA Track)
Introduction to Networks · Switching, Routing and Wireless Essentials · Enterprise Networking, Security and Automation
Jan 2021 – Aug 2021

Languages

Italian (native) · English (professional)

Tech (Representative)

Python · REST · WebSocket · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Networking · Runtime Security