Emmanuel Tissera
Technical Director, Umbraco MVP
B.Sc (Hons) Computing & Information Systems (London Met)
As Technical Director, Emmanuel works closely with our clients while providing leadership and mentoring to the development team.
Emm knew his calling early on in life. At the age of 15, he wrote an essay on his ambition to become a software engineer. A Microsoft Certified Professional, his software and web development career officially began in 2002. He started to work with content management systems in 2004 and is currently certified on Umbraco, Kentico Xperience, Sitecore and Kentico Kontent. Prior to joining Luminary, Emm held roles as Technical Lead for Emirates Airline and Senior Software Engineer at Australian Associated Press. His areas of expertise include Kentico Kontent, Umbraco Heartcore and other headless CMSs.
He has been awarded for his exceptional talent with a Golden Najm (Star) Award from Emirates and a Finalist position at the AAP Awards in recognition of his excellence for innovation. In 2020, Emm was also recognised as a Umbraco MVP. A self-proclaimed bookworm, when he's not working he's likely to be curled up on the couch with a novel.
Quick facts about Emmanuel
Favorite emoji
👓
Star sign
♐ Sagittarius
Chinese zodiac
🐕 Dog
Inspired by
Everyday people, those who have a smile on their face whatever life throws at them.
Fun fact
Emmanuel and his wife were first photographed together when he was 10 years old (he was in the background of her First Holy Communion photograph). Twelve years later he phoned her by mistake and they got married a few years later.
Emmanuel's expertise
Below is a selection of Emmanuel's achievements and writing.
Emmanuel Tissera named Umbraco MVP
Emmanuel Tissera named Umbraco MVP
By Tami Iseli, 1 minute read
Luminary's Emmanuel Tissera has been awarded the prestigious title of Umbraco MVP.
GILT or GUILT – Localisation crimes
GILT or GUILT – Localisation crimes
By Emmanuel Tissera, 1 minute read
Want to learn about globalisation and localisation? I was fortunate to speak about this recently at the Dutch Festival 2020 (DF20). This is a recording from that session, along with the Q&A.
Umbraco Heartcore launch
Umbraco Heartcore launch
By Emmanuel Tissera, 7 minute read
Umbraco Heartcore (formerly Umbraco Headless) was announced for public beta in February 2018 at the Umbraco Down Under Festival held on the Gold Coast in Australia. Fast forward to December 2019 for the commercial launch and learn more about what Umbraco Heartcore has to offer.
E-Commerce in Umbraco 8
E-Commerce in Umbraco 8
By Emmanuel Tissera, 1 minute read
The March 2020 Melbourne Umbraco meetup was all about E-commerce packages in Umbraco 8. Ucommerce and Vendr spoke about their offerings and gave us practical demos.
A tutorial on building a .NET Core website with Umbraco Headless
By Emmanuel Tissera, 2 minute read
Want to build a .NET Core MVC website using Umbraco Headless? Follow this tutorial from Luminary Technical Lead Emmanuel Tissera...
Internationalisation and localisation tips
Internationalisation and localisation tips
By Emmanuel Tissera, 5 minute read
Globalisation, internationalisation, localisation and translation (GILT) are not just buzzwords. Six billion (80%) of the world's population and nearly one million (3.5%) of Australia's population find English a barrier.
Serving content to IoT devices with a headless CMS
Serving content to IoT devices with a headless CMS
By Emmanuel Tissera, 5 minute read
Need a way to serve the same content to a growing range of platforms? Headless content management systems are your answer.
The heads up on headless - slides from DDD Melbourne 2019
The heads up on headless - slides from DDD Melbourne 2019
By Emmanuel Tissera, 0 minute read
I had the honour of presenting a session on Headless CMS and Content as a Service (CaaS) at DDD Melbourne 2019 at the Melbourne Convention Centre. As promised, here are my slides from the event. I hope you enjoyed it!
How not to be shy on stage: Fixing a Kentico 'Gotcha'
How not to be shy on stage: Fixing a Kentico 'Gotcha'
By Emmanuel Tissera & Andy Thompson, 4 minute read
Using the Kentico API to insert media files into a Media Library, and a solution to when those items do not appear in the Kentico Staging queue.
There's more where Emmanuel came from...
It takes a constellation of talents to create great experiences. Here are a few more of the stellar individuals that make Luminary shine.
Mark McManus
Senior UI Designer
Mark is a senior UI designer with a passion for design systems.
Tim Ferres
Solutions Architect/Team Lead
A highly experienced Solutions Architect, Tim has a blackbelt in taking complex technical concepts and explaining them in plain English.
Andrew Radburnd
CIO
Andrew is responsible for the strategy, planning, management and implementation of technical infrastructure for Luminary and our clients.
