Alfie Fresta
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfie Fresta is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta working on Integrity & Compromise for WhatsApp, with 13 years of experience building secure, large-scale systems. He combines deep security-focused engineering—cryptography, PKI, and modern auth protocols—with a history of adapting WhatsApp to emerging platforms and devices. Prior roles at Amazon and Oracle sharpened his backend and systems design skills, while an academic background in Computer Science with AI grounds his approach in rigorous problem solving. Security-minded and pragmatic, he balances production engineering with thoughtful protocol design and a continued appreciation for open source. Based in London, he brings both hands-on implementation experience and a strategic view of platform trust and resilience.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, High School Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at ITIS E. Fermi Giarre (CT)Master’s Degree Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at University of York
English, Italian
Github Skills (87)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linux-credentials/libwebauthn
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
FIDO2 (WebAuthn) and FIDO U2F platform library for Linux written in Rust; includes a proposal for a new D-Bus Portal interface for FIDO2, accessible from Flatpak apps and Snaps 🔑
Contributions:39 reviews, 88 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 6 months
snapspamd-buswebauthnrust
CroceRossaItaliana/jorvik
Feb 2015 - May 2018
'Jorvik' is the codename for the second and latest version of the Gaia Project, used by Italian Red Cross. ISSUES: https://jira.gaia.cri.it/browse/JO
Contributions:1094 commits, 114 PRs, 1000 pushes in 3 years 2 months
red-crossgaia-projectvolunteershumanitarianitalian
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