Andrea Terzolo
Staff Software Engineer at SUSE
Liguria, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Terzolo is a Staff Software Engineer from Liguria, Italy, with five years of hands-on experience in cloud-native security, eBPF, and observability. Currently at SUSE, he focuses on enhancing network observability with eBPF and OpenTelemetry, after serving as a Falco core maintainer at Sysdig and as a research fellow working on runtime security. He has deep kernel- and backend-level expertise—having added execveat and clone3 support to Falco's libs and improved its probe and plugin APIs—demonstrating care for low-level correctness and maintainability. Andrea blends rigorous academic training in computer engineering and cybersecurity from Politecnico di Torino with practical open-source leadership on a premier CNCF project (Falco). Colleagues would describe him as relentless about incremental improvement and unfazed by tough engineering challenges, often investing his full focus into projects that excite him.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico "G.P. Vieusseux"Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity at Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
controller10
ebpf10
kernel-module10
linux-kernel10
containerization10
security10
led-controller10
controls10
go10
kernel-mode10
kubernetes-pods10
controller-advice10
cloud-native10
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
falcosecurity/libs
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
libsinsp, libscap, the kernel module driver, and the eBPF driver sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Kernel Module Engineer
Back-end Developer & Kernel Module EngineerContributions:25 releases, 2049 reviews, 658 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrea focused on adding support for the `execveat` system call within the Falco security library. Their contributions primarily involved modifying kernel module drivers, particularly the eBPF probe, to properly capture and process information related to `execveat` calls. This included extending support to library functions for correct data handling, and adding new parameters to the process information captured. The user also introduced support for handling clone3 related events.
kernelbpflibsinspebpflinux
liqotech/liqo
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Enable dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 44 commits, 53 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrea's primary contribution centers around the implementation and refinement of custom resource definitions (CRDs) within the Liqo project, particularly focusing on the `NamespaceMap` CRD. They added essential scaffolding files, deep copy functions, and type definitions. Furthermore, the user integrated these CRDs into the Liqo controller manager by adding the necessary code for the controller. They also refactored and improved the NamespaceMap CRD, adding new fields to the spec and status.
cloud-computingmulti-clusterclustersresource-sharingkubernetes-clusters
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