Antonio Sanso
Researcher at Ethereum Foundation
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAntonio Sanso is a researcher and security-minded software engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening distributed systems, currently contributing to the Ethereum Foundation on consensus-specs for Proof-of-Stake. His background spans senior security research at Adobe and hands-on engineering roles at IBM and other enterprises, blending applied cryptography (PhD) with practical test automation and QA. Antonio has focused on improving the robustness of Ethereum's sync_aggregate testing in high-profile open-source specs, showing attention to correctness and code quality beyond pure research. Based in Basel, he combines academic rigor—summa cum laude master's and a PhD in cryptography—with a track record of shipping security-focused tooling in production environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciences degree, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Sciences degree, Computer Science Engineering at Università della CalabriaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of OuluDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
English, Italian
Github Skills (8)
altair10
pytest10
python10
ethereum10
testing10
ss9
serialization9
serializer9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/consensus-specs
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Ethereum Consensus Specifications
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Antonio primarily focuses on updating and modifying test cases related to the `sync_aggregate` functionality within the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake consensus specifications. They address issues and refine testing in the `altair` and `ssz_generic` test suites. The user's contributions ensure the correctness and robustness of the consensus specifications by adding new test cases and modifying existing ones. They also appear to address linting issues, indicating efforts to maintain code quality.
consensusethereum
pqc2018/round1
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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