Technical Lead – Release Management · Banque de Luxembourg

Nicolas Malinconico

Technical Lead | Core Banking · Release Management · DevOps & AI Automation

Technical Lead in Release Management with over 20 years in IT, mainly in banking. Expertise in Avaloq production releases, environment management, non-regression testing, tooling and automation. Contributed to setting up the new Avaloq Wealth Platform (AWP) product on OpenShift, including Kafka/Strimzi. Experience in resilience, high availability and DRP exercises, as well as LLM-assisted automation and versioned technical documentation.

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Professional Experience

  1. 2018 – present

    Technical Lead – Release Management

    Banque de Luxembourg · Luxembourg

    • Prepare, coordinate and track Avaloq releases and deployments with development, infrastructure and security teams (rehearsals, pre-release checks).
    • Organise non-regression testing and results reporting.
    • Build and evolve internal tooling and automation (PL/SQL, Bash, PowerShell, Java Spring Boot, UC4 Automic, Azure DevOps).
    • Manage Avaloq environments: environment and Oracle database refreshes, anonymisation of sensitive data (GDPR).
    • Production operations: incidents, support and on-call; ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager monitoring; high availability and disaster recovery (DRP) exercises in a banking environment.

  2. 2014 – 2018

    Release Management Engineer

    Banque de Luxembourg · Luxembourg

    • Integrated and deployed Avaloq Core Banking developments (Oracle, PL/SQL).
    • Organised production releases and coordinated business and technical teams.
    • Bulk testing, delivery qualification, automated checks and code reviews.
    • Built release tracking tools and reporting.

  3. Feb 2012 – Aug 2014

    IT Technical Analyst

    RBC Investor Services · Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    • Application deployments and production releases.
    • AIX Shell scripts for batch processing, scheduling, alerting and automation.
    • Monitoring of business applications and the SWIFT chain.

  4. Sep 2008 – Jan 2012

    Analyst Programmer

    RBC Investor Services · Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    • Progress 4GL development on SARA, a transfer agency and registrar package.
    • SQL optimisation, asynchronous processing and refactoring.
    • Functional analysis, production incidents, support and documentation.

  5. Jan 2007 – Aug 2008

    Analyst Programmer

    ERI Bancaire · Luxembourg

    • Olympic Banking System: development in COBOL, SQL/DB2 and XML on AS/400.
    • Data migration when onboarding new clients, including UniCredit.

  6. Sep 2004 – Jan 2007

    IT Technician

    Ascométal · Hagondange, France

    • Application coordinating external contractors’ work (Visual Basic 6, Access).
    • Contributed to an industrial load-shedding and energy management project (Java J2EE).

AI & Knowledge Automation

New Avaloq Wealth Platform (AWP) product on OpenShift

  • Contributed to setting up and deploying the new Avaloq Wealth Platform (AWP) product on Red Hat OpenShift.
  • AWP Kafka stack: installation and configuration with Strimzi, contribution to the KRaft migration, topic troubleshooting, Grafana monitoring.

AI & Knowledge Automation

Applied AI & Knowledge Capture

Banque de Luxembourg · Release Management team

  • Automating recurring IT and documentation tasks with LLM assistance (in day-to-day use in the team).
  • Building and structuring a Git/Markdown-versioned technical documentation corpus.
  • Contribution, review and traceability process for colleagues’ input (being defined), with safeguards: confidentiality, secrets, access control and banking data.

Personal Projects & Entrepreneurship

Calenzen

2026 – present

Founder and developer — business SaaS

Tailored business SaaS for massage institutes and wellness professionals, designed, built and run on my own, used by clients.

  • Online bookings, multi-practitioner scheduling, workshops and gift cards; Stripe payments and deposits; email/SMS alerts and reminders; management features, accounting exports and custom features.
  • Python/FastAPI, MySQL, multi-tenant, pytest and Playwright tests, GitHub Actions CI; built with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex (AI-assisted development tools), with human approval before every release.
Project page →calenzen.fr ↗

nmcharts

Author — open source

Lightweight, dependency-free open-source JavaScript library for interactive Canvas charts.

nmcharts.malinconico.lu ↗