# Luca Bianchi **CTIO @ MESA · AWS AI Hero · Cursor Ambassador** Milan / Pavia, Italy · EU citizen · [bianchi.luca@gmail.com](mailto:bianchi.luca@gmail.com) · +39 328 6867731 [bianchiluca.com](https://bianchiluca.com) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabianchipavia/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/aletheia) · [X](https://x.com/bianchiluca) · [Newsletter](https://www.theagenticstack.dev/) ## Summary I build production agentic platforms, the serverless economics underneath them, and the organizations that ship them. Chief Technology Officer for 15+ years, from startup to listed-company scale, with a decade shipping AI systems to production. Currently CTIO at MESA and CTO & Board Member of LIDIA, its legal-tech AI company, where I took the Lidia platform from MVP to production serving thousands of customers; founder and AI advisor at Radixia. Hands-on by design: architecture reviews, production code, and reference implementations on AWS, in TypeScript and Python. PhD in Computer Engineering · AWS AI Hero · Cursor Ambassador. ## Career highlights - Legal-tech AI platform taken from MVP to production: thousands of customers, 500k+ GenAI requests/day. - SaaS platform scaled to 10M+ users at 40% lower latency; 80% of workloads on serverless, infrastructure cost down an order of magnitude. - Engineering organizations grown and led to 100 engineers, from startup to listed-company scale. - A ~60-person organization — 35 engineers plus 20–25 business users and functional analysts — moved to AI-assisted delivery: Cursor, Claude Code, and agents inside the SDLC. ## Skills Agentic AI · AWS · Serverless · TypeScript · Python · Event-driven architecture · MLOps - **AI engineering:** Agentic AI, AI Agents, Generative AI, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Agent SDK, Strands Agents, RAG, GraphRAG, Vector databases, Machine learning, MLOps, LLMOps - **AWS & cloud:** AWS Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB, AWS CDK, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud economics / FinOps, Vercel - **Engineering:** TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Next.js, Event-driven architecture, Microservices, Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, CI/CD, DevOps, Platform engineering - **Leadership:** Technology strategy & P&L, Engineering organization leadership, AI adoption & governance, Vendor & partnership strategy, Board and investor communication ## Experience ### Chief Technology & Innovation Officer — MESA *Apr 2025 – Present · Italy* MESA is an ISV building ESG/GRC software used by Big Four consultancies and enterprises. - Own company-wide AI and cloud strategy; lead the innovation portfolio from technology evaluation to production adoption. - Led the modernization of the legacy core into DDD bounded contexts, with fitness functions encoded with a Cursor SDK agent that scores progress continuously. - Architected agents in MESA products, matching business requirements with agentic AI capabilities. - Enabled company-wide AI adoption after a failed GitHub Copilot rollout — internal hackathon, free-to-fail playground — and brought business users into the SDLC: Event Storming before any prompt; agents for requirements modeling, bounded-context extraction, and architecture review. ### CTO & Board Member — LIDIA *Apr 2025 – Present · Italy* MESA's legal-tech AI company: agentic knowledge management for legal and compliance work. - Architected the Lidia platform, event-driven, agentic, on Amazon Bedrock with RAG/GraphRAG retrieval, and took it from MVP to production serving thousands of customers, at 500k+ GenAI requests/day. - Board member: technology governance for the venture. Presented the platform architecture at AWS Summit Milano 2026. ### Founder, Shareholder & AI Advisor — Radixia *Feb 2025 – Present · Italy* - Advisory seat in a founder-led venture, held alongside the MESA executive role: re-architected a healthcare cloud platform to be AI-ready; built a multi-agent content pipeline on Strands Agents and Claude (github.com/radixia/rooting-agentic-pipeline). ### Contract Professor, Human-Computer Interaction — University of Pavia *Mar 2025 – Apr 2026 · Pavia, Italy* Adjunct engagement, held alongside the executive roles. - Designed and taught the MSc-level Human-Computer Interaction course, bridging academic foundations with industry practice. ### Chief Technology Officer & Field CTO — Neosperience S.p.A. *2011 – Mar 2025 · Milan, Italy* A pivotal player in defining the Customer Experience market — listed Italian ISV and system integrator. Joined leading R&D; CTO from Oct 2014; Field CTO from Jan 2024. - Built the DevOps practice that took delivery from monthly releases to weekly sprints with on-time production deployments. - As Field CTO: technical authority in top-customer deals with direct P&L impact; owned strategic vendor relationships, AWS included. - Led R&D through 2022: applied machine learning to customer analytics, with a prototype-to-product pipeline. - Under this tenure, Neosperience was named Gartner Cool Vendor (2013), Red Herring Top 100 Europe, Top Innovation Award Italy (2014), QUID Innovation Italy Winner. ### Chief Technology Officer — Neosperience Health *Oct 2022 – Feb 2025 · Milan, Italy* Healthcare spin-off of Neosperience; concurrent mandate. - Built and led internal and outsourced delivery of an AI healthcare SaaS: domain-driven architecture, MLOps adoption. - Owned the technical narrative for investors and key customers. ### CTO & Board Member — WizKey *2018 – 2023 · Milan, Italy* Fintech spin-off of Neosperience: credit and finance products on Ethereum; concurrent mandate. - Board member and CTO: technology governance and delivery of Ethereum smart-contract products. ### Earlier roles — Neosperience · Neos · University of Pavia *2006 – 2011* - Senior Solution Architect, Neosperience (2010–2011): microservices with Grails, Spring and AWS, plus iOS SDK development. VP Platform & Evangelism, Neos (2009–2011). - PhD researcher, University of Pavia (2006–2010): high-performance computing on GPU architectures (CUDA, IBM Cell). ## Community & recognition - AWS AI Hero, previously AWS Serverless Hero — recognized by AWS for contributions to the community · Cursor Ambassador - Co-organizer, ServerlessDays Italy & Serverless Meetup Italy (2018 – Present) and AWS Community Day Italy - Author, The Agentic Stack — newsletter on AI agents and agentic architectures (theagenticstack.dev) - Author, AgentOS (book, in progress) — production agentic architectures. Mentor, Startupbootcamp Milan (2024) - Public code at github.com/aletheia — wordprint, radixia/rooting-agentic-pipeline, mesagroup/mesa-cli. Most 2026 work is private (MESA / Lidia). ## Selected talks - **AI Agents for Documents** — MLOpsDay 2026, Bologna - **Event-Driven AI Agents: Orchestrating Long-Context Legal Processing at Scale** — WeAreDevelopers Summit 2026, Berlin - **Agentic Knowledge Management on Amazon Bedrock** — AWS Summit Milano 2026 - **Documents Are Not Knowledge: Modelling Extraction as an Event-Driven Domain** — Codemotion 2026, Milano - **Small Language Models for Distributed Agents: Efficiency, Privacy, Sustainability** — WeMakeFuture 2026, Bologna ## Education - **PhD, Computer Engineering**, University of Pavia (2006 – 2010) - **MSc, Computer Engineering**, University of Pavia (2004 – 2006) — 110/110 cum laude ## Languages - Italian — Native speaker - English — Full professional proficiency --- Last updated 2026-08. Canonical version: