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/explore - Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira — Principal Serverless Solutions Architect, AWS

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 03:30 PM

Questions (9)

As a principal IC, a large portion of your job is to influence without the leverage of a team. What are your tactics and strategies for influencing senior leaders across your organization?

Alex · Global Head of DT & IxD · BIL

What's your take on the environmental cost of AI at scale? How should architects think about sustainability as a first-class design constraint?

Luca · Design Technologist · BIL

How do you see the software engineer role evolving in the next few years? Is the push toward product/design engineer hybrid a natural evolution or a risk of losing technical depth?

Luca · Design Technologist · BIL

One risk of AI-accelerated development is that teams ship code faster but build less shared mental model of how their system actually works. How do you maintain collective understanding when AI is writing significant portions of the code?

Mirko · Head of DT EU/APAC · BIL

AI tools are dramatically accelerating code production, but testing strategies and observability practices haven't evolved at the same pace. Are you seeing a growing gap?

Mirko · Head of DT EU/APAC · BIL

Should we still write traditional design documents and follow established processes in the age of spec-driven development? Or should these processes adapt, with tools like Kiro becoming more powerful?

Niels · Sr. Frontend Engineer · BIL-E

Can you walk through a real example where a migration to microfrontends exposed limitations in the existing design system, and what changes were needed?

Fabio · Lead DT · BIL

When an organization migrates to microfrontends, how should the mental model for the design system evolve?

Fabio · Lead DT · BIL

Atomic design principles and keeping micro frontends on the same page able to share components without impacting others on the page.

Ian · Frontend Engineer · BIL-E