you@luccas-site:~$ whoami

lucca prada - london, ontario
  work     backend + ai co-op at wsib, on the health-check automation platform
  building atrio and outpace, two ai tools for small service businesses
  school   computer programming & analysis at fanshawe, on a full scholarship
  stack    java / spring boot, python, next.js, claude api, one ubuntu closet
  site     luccahp1.github.io/portfolio

you@luccas-site:~$ _

I build small software for real businesses. The kind where the owner still picks up the phone. Lately I have been teaching robots to pick it up politely instead.

Three libraries with no third-party code in them, and none in their tests either. javac and java are the entire toolchain, which means CI needs nothing but a JDK.

FAIL  token bucket does not over-admit under 8-thread contention
      exactly 100 permits may be granted with a frozen clock (expected 100, got 142)
1 FAILED, 19 passed

FAIL  CORRUPTION: a flipped bit is caught by the checksum
1 FAILED, 18 passed

luccaserver is an Ubuntu box in my closet. Everything I build eventually moves in, which means I have broken and repaired my own DNS, TLS, reverse proxy and unit files enough times to be genuinely useful with them.

flowchart LR
  subgraph WAY_IN [" the way in "]
    CF["cloudflared<br/>tunnel"]
    TS["tailscale<br/>private mesh"]
  end

  NGINX["nginx<br/>reverse proxy"]

  subgraph APPS [" things that run "]
    PA["pawsit-auth<br/>GoTrue"]
    PR["pawsit-rest<br/>PostgREST"]
    HD["homedash"]
    DCC["daily-command-center"]
    AB["atrio-bridge"]
    CS["co-skip"]
  end

  PG[("postgres<br/>row level security")]

  subgraph TIMERS [" systemd timers "]
    T1["scrape brightspace<br/>daily"]
    T2["atrio watchdog<br/>every 10 min"]
    T3["backup<br/>nightly"]
  end

  CF --> NGINX
  TS --> NGINX
  NGINX --> PA
  NGINX --> PR
  NGINX --> HD
  NGINX --> DCC
  NGINX --> AB
  NGINX --> CS
  PA --> PG
  PR --> PG
  T1 --> DCC
  T2 --> AB
  T3 --> PG

pawsit.ca is served from that box through a Cloudflare Tunnel, with real Postgres row-level security behind it. Uptime is a collaboration between me and the power grid.

IT Solution Delivery Co-op, Technology at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, London ON, May 2025 to present, across consecutive terms.

• Backend work on WSIB's health-check automation platform in Java, Python, Spring Boot and Spring Boot Admin
• Secure HTTP request handling with JWT tokens and cookies in enterprise systems
• Led the hands-on side of an iText PDF library upgrade: read the legacy modules, fixed the breaking changes, ran the regression tests
• Debugged and refactored legacy Java for reliability and readability
• Recipient of the WSIB Scholars Award, a full scholarship

Atrio is an AI front desk. A phone receptionist that learns a business by reading its website, then answers calls like it has worked there for years. No menus, no "press 2". next.js vapi claude api

Outpace is speed-to-lead. It answers a business's new leads within minutes, in the owner's own voice, and keeps following up until a human replies. Built for trades that leak leads on nights and weekends, because the first company to answer usually wins the job. next.js claude turso

Both are mine end to end: product design, unit economics, code, deploy, and the 2am when something breaks.

PawSit is a live pet-sitting marketplace for London, Ontario. Fee-free on purpose: in a city that finds sitters by word of mouth, charging on day one just gives people a reason to keep using e-transfer. Report cards after every visit are the moat.

luccahp1.github.io/portfolio is my portfolio, written by hand. No framework, no template, no build step. It remembers your visits, lets you draw on it, prints itself as my resume with ctrl+p, and hides a working terminal behind the / key.

The header up top is hand-drawn SVG committed to this repo, not a stats widget. The cord sways, and it stops swaying if you have asked your OS for reduced motion.

luccaprada25@gmail.com - I read everything, and I reply.