Luca Forni
Creator And Maintainer
Greater Turin Metropolitan Area Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Forni is a technology innovator and serial founder with over two decades of experience building enterprise software, currently leading cloud-native and AI initiatives as Creator of Plexica and Co-founder/Technical Director of Modalsource, Topmedia, and Nurtigo. He specializes in Kubernetes orchestration, AI/ML integration, and Large Language Models, and is an early adopter of AI coding agents and "vibecoding" techniques to accelerate development. Luca blends hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to cryptocurrency exchange integrations on the popular XChange Java library—with architectural consulting and team leadership for digital transformation projects. Based in the Greater Turin area, he pairs practical cloud-scale microservices design with an entrepreneurial knack for turning open-source projects into production-grade platforms.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Politecnico di Torino
English
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
bitcoin10
api10
bitcoins10
apidoc10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
knowm/XChange
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
XChange is a Java library providing a streamlined API for interacting with 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges providing a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Luca primarily contributed to the xchange library by implementing and fixing API integrations with various cryptocurrency exchanges. Their work includes addressing order amount issues on Cobinhood, integrating Huobi's getAllTickers API, creating a new account API for Kucoin, implementing a getPrices API for Kucoin, and fixing a symbol parsing issue for Coinbene. These changes suggest a focus on expanding exchange support and improving the reliability of market data retrieval.
bitcoinjavatrading
modalsource/postal
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail
Contributions:19 PRs, 57 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year
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