Luca Marturana

Chief Architect at Spark

Italy

About

Software engineer, photographer, swimmer, runner and chef (more or less)

Experience

  • Chief Architect at Spark AI (YC W24)
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    Working with the CEO to design and build the core technical architecture of the product. Focused on making good technical decisions early, keeping systems simple, building foundations that scale and supporting early team growth.

  • Software Engineer at Luca3m tech
    Sep 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Helping companies build software and teams.

  • Gap year at Career Break
    Dec 2023 - Sep 2024 · 10 mos

    Taking a break after 11 years in the industry. I’ll spend this time raising my kids, doing more exercise, sleep - and exploring business ideas.

  • Brex ()
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Revamp billing system and working across cross-functional teams Lead the Card Fraud team to ship automation for fraud transactions and modernized dispute management (90% reduction in CX cases) Lead the next-generation global payments platform to unify money movement across all products. This project cut by 50% time to market for new products Lead my team to implement a new banking partner for Brex Cash product Led my team and teams of other orgs to implement initial version of Global Reimbursements Serve group tech lead of 3 teams with 20 engineers and serve as a mentor for engineers

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Feb 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Lead backend for Rewards points to airline miles conversion Lead design and execution of a new onboarding platform Tech lead for rewards and onboarding platforms

  • Member of Technical Staff at Holloway
    May 2018 - Feb 2019 · 10 mos

    Founding backend and infrastructure engineer Re-architected production infrastructure from a one-off setup to a fully automated architecture using CircleCI, AWS Beanstalk and AWS Batch Built various features on document building pipeline: blog posts, dictionary, SEO optimized pages