Hands-on engineering leader · SDLC & continuous delivery · agentic AI transformation
Nearly 30 years in software and 10+ years leading engineering organizations across luxury e-commerce, banking, and enterprise software. I design the operating models and engineering practices that let teams of any size ship reliably — from developer tooling to continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
Still fully hands-on: I design, code, and ship. C# and .NET have been my core stack for 25 years, and I work every day with AI coding agents such as Claude Code.
- 📖 Il senior amplificato — Guidare gli agenti senza cedere il giudizio. A book (in Italian, in progress on Leanpub) on a method for senior engineers working with AI agents and agentic harnesses: the agent executes inside explicit constraints — scope, verification, stop conditions — while the senior keeps the judgment.
- ✉️ The newsletter of the same name — weekly on LinkedIn, 300+ subscribers. Agentic models and frameworks, from someone who works with them every day.
- 🤖 How engineering organizations can adopt AI agents to rethink delivery and operations.
| 🚢 Platform modernization | Fully automated Kubernetes clusters (Ansible, Rancher) with GitOps through ArgoCD |
| 🔐 NIS2-ready security | Vulnerability control and verification pipelines built into delivery |
| 💶 API-first revenue | A platform strategy that opened new revenue from third-party integrations |
| 🧩 From product to acquisition | A Task Mining product that became part of a global vendor's portfolio |
| ☁️ Early cloud adopter | AWS and serverless from 2016, real-time ML personalization at global scale |
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Speaker since 2009 at Italian conferences, meetups, and developer communities — 15+ talks, most of them with live code demos. DevOpsHeroes · Cloudgen · Global Azure · A.I. Day · DevOps@Work · Come To Code · AngularJS Day.
Talk themes
- AI & Agents — Orchestrating LLMs with Semantic Kernel and C# · AI-enhanced DevOps
- Platform Engineering — GitOps with ArgoCD on multi-cluster Kubernetes · Application platforms with .NET Aspire and Dapr · Developer platforms with Backstage on Azure
- MLOps — From DevOps to MLOps with Azure and GitHub · Continuous delivery of ML.NET models on Azure
- Event-Driven Architecture — From CRUD to real-time with Change Data Capture (Kafka, Debezium) · CQRS information flows with Dapr
- Quality & Delivery — End-to-end testing with Cypress in DevOps pipelines
Full catalogue on Sessionize.
The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn — send the context, the outcome you need, and the timing. More on lucamilan.eu · also in Italian.
Content revised with AI, at the author's direction.