Angelo Puglisi
Senior Software Engineer at Sysdig
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAngelo Puglisi is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance backend systems and leading delivery-focused teams from Sicily. He combines deep C++ systems expertise—contributing to notable low-level projects like falcosecurity/libs (libsinsp/libscap and driver fixes)—with practical leadership skills gained running scrum teams for telco-scale products. Angelo emphasizes shipping pragmatic, resilient software over theoretical perfection, driving improvements in stability, CI, and microservices design on Kubernetes. His background spans streaming middleware for set-top boxes to asynchronous RESTful services and data sync solutions, giving him a strong record of production incident analysis and performance optimization. A top-graduating computer science alumnus, he also brings a knack for turning field feedback into product refinements and measurable operational gains.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Upper school certificate, Computer Science, 100/100, Upper school certificate, Computer Science, 100/100 at I.T.I.S. Guglielmo Marconi, CataniaBachelor, Computer Science, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor, Computer Science, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Catania
Italian, English
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
lib10
cap10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
debug9
device-driver9
debugging9
driver9
ebpf8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
falcosecurity/libs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
libsinsp, libscap, the kernel module driver, and the eBPF driver sources
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 55 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Angelo primarily contributed to the `libsinsp` and `libscap` libraries, focusing on improving and optimizing the codebase. Their work included refactoring code to use more efficient methods, such as replacing string copying with `+=`, fixing bugs related to capabilities in the `execve` exit parser, and addressing issues in the driver code. They also made several code style improvements.
kernelbpflibsinspebpflinux
deepskyblue86/falcosecurity-libs
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
libsinsp, libscap, the kernel module driver, and the eBPF driver sources
Contributions:6 PRs, 74 pushes, 70 branches in 3 years 2 months
kernelbpfdriversdriverlibsinsp
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