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$390 / month
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MentorCruise summary
Luca is a Senior Software Engineer at Xebia. He has more than 13 years of experience in Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure, including work at GitHub. He helps software engineers strengthen their engineering skills, improve code through reviews and exercises, and plan career growth in cloud-native and AI infrastructure.
Based on 13 verified mentee reviews
- Reviewers often praise his thoughtful code reviews and practical advice on engineering problems.
- Mentees value his tailored exercises, reading recommendations, and project work that address their knowledge gaps and goals.
- Several reviewers mention his guidance on career direction, workplace challenges, and moving into new roles.
About
👋 Hey! Platform Engineer at Xebia, focused on AI platform engineering - the infrastructure behind reliable, observable, scalable AI and cloud-native workloads. I work primarily in Go and Google Cloud, with deep experience in Kubernetes, containers, and end-to-end observability - and a strong interest in networking and lower-level systems. My current focus is the platform layer beneath AI: inference serving infrastructure on Kubernetes, AI gateway and MCP connectivity, agentic workload orchestration, and end-to-end observability for GenAI systems.
My broader experience is full-stack: strong on backend, with solid frontend and mobile knowledge. I contribute to open source, write on my blog, and pick up the occasional talk, training, or meetup when something interesting comes up. I'm a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and a CNCF Ambassador. I mentor engineers on Go, platform engineering, distributed systems, and career growth in cloud-native and AI infrastructure.
For a deeper dive, see my blog. If you're new to open source, check out Verto.sh. Outside of work, activities like photography, motorcycling, playing a handpan and cleaning litterboxes keep me occupied 🐈.
What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Amir
Standard Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
Alexandru
Standard Plan • 3 months
5 out of 5 stars
My collaboration with Luca has been very helpful! He's a person who would answer your questions and give practical pieces of advice on where to find more info and how to use it the best. But don't forget that most of the work has to be done and determined by YOU, and Luca is there to help you, not to tell you what to do, so don't forget to read how to actually work with a mentor.
Pavlo
Standard Plan • 4 months
Get to know Luca
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Platform Engineer. GDE & CNCF Ambassador. Off-hours: photography, motorcycles, handpan, cats. - lucavallin
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LinkLuca Cavallin
Platform Engineer at Xebia. I focus on building distributed systems and the infrastructure and networking tooling behind reliable, observable cloud-native …
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What happens when you start
You tell Luca your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Luca reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
