Hi! I'm Luca, a software engineer and theatre technician. In 2021 in graduated from Lancaster University's MSci Computer Science degree scheme, having earned myself a First Class Honours degree in Computer Science (with Industrial Experience). I was taught in Visual Basic .NET with Visual Studio in my A-levels, from which I was easily able to pick up C# before taking my study further in University. Lancaster re-introduced programming with C before delving much deeper with Java. Python featured a few times in various modules, as did Assembly language (MIPS and PIC).

During my time at university, I was both of one of the first undergraduate Teaching Assistants in our department and Education Officer for the Computer Science Society. In these roles I both mentored students one-to-one in labs, giving guidance where needed, and presented small workshops and sessions.

After graduating from Lancaster, I began work near Cambridge as a Graduate Software Engineer, working primarily with C# .NET in development and maintenance of an Android/iOS mobile app for management of performance vehicle driving telemetry and audio/visual recordings. After struggling to settle in Cambridge, largely due to on-going effects from the covid-19 pandemic, I decided to take my chance to attempt to turn my hobby into a career as a theatre and events technician.

Though I had about 8/9 years of experience in school and amateur theatre under all sorts of backstage guises at this point, I began professionally as a venue technician at Edinburgh Fringe, before going freelance for a while, then eventually taking a fulltime role as Lighting & Sound Technician at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. I spent just over three years at the Everyman from April 2023 to May 2026, and learnt huge amounts from weekly get-ins, get-outs, and show-running for everything from one-night music acts, to number one touring musicals that barely fit into our theatre. During that time, I documented the shows that came through over on Instagram.

With a view to the long-term future (and a heavy heart in leaving the Everyman), I have returned to software once more. Happily, this has not meant leaving lighting for theatre and events, as I can now be found as a C# Developer for Avolites, working on the Titan control software across all Avo consoles. My day-to-day now revolves around maintaining quite the behemoth of an application Titan is, and making sure it's up to scratch for everything from the first-generation Tiger Touch, up to the brand new D3/7/9 consoles.

You can also find me on LinkedIn.

Here you will find a selection of my university and earlier work, together with a few other projects that I have developed in my free time, and a portfolio of my theatre and events work under this repo.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jun 2026