Gianluca Tiepolo is an accomplished software engineering professional and entrepreneur with several years of experience in developing software and products on a variety of technologies, from consumer applications to revolutionary projects focused on computer vision, data engineering, and database programming. His software stack ranges from traditional platforms, such as Hadoop and OpenCV, to modern platforms, such as Node.js and Redis.

He is the founder of Defrogs, a start-up that is building a new-generation data engineering platform to handle big data called TrisDB. Bringing in innovative data process development approaches, this organization focuses on cutting-edge technologies designed to scale small to large distributed data clusters. To date, TrisDB is used by more than 3 million developers around the world. He previously co-founded Sixth Sense Solutions, a start-up that develops interactive solutions for the retail and fashion industries. In 2013, he helped produce the largest touch-enabled surface in the world. Currently, he's working on a fashion platform called Stylobag and maintains several open source projects on his GitHub account.

In 2015, he reviewed the book called Building Web Applications with Python and Neo4j published by Packt Publishing.