Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. Right now he is working on a multiplatform server and client application to monitor agricultural fields named DigiAgriApp. He contribute to GRASS GIS, OSGeoLive, QGIS, and ZOO-Project projects, he is also the main developer of pyModis library.

He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he was a board member and from November 2017 to December 2020 he was President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter. In 2022 he stepped down from the board.

He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first international FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19