Arturo Filastò
Co-Founder & Vice President at OONI (Open Observatory of Network Interference)
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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RockstarArturo Filastò is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building privacy-preserving networking tools and open-source censorship circumvention systems from Rome. As Co-Founder & Vice President of Hermes Center and Executive Director & CTO at OONI, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to drive transparency and measurement of Internet censorship worldwide. He has deep full-stack expertise—authoring C++/Obj-C/Java bindings, improving Tor2web, and enhancing fault-tolerant web uploads—while contributing critical security and HTTPS tooling for censorship testing. Known for pragmatic integrations and attention to interoperability, he repeatedly turns complex networking and cryptographic plumbing into usable, auditable systems that empower decentralized researchers and activists.
15 years of coding experience
Italian, French, English
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
python10
http10
proxy10
ccx10
networking10
binding10
go10
webapi10
twisted10
file-upload10
network-security10
keybindings10
tor10
bind10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
citizenlab/test-lists
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
URL testing lists intended for discovering website censorship
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 401 commits, 419 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Arturo primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying code related to secure HTTPS connections and implementing a basic services system for the test lists. They integrated third-party libraries like certifi and ssl_match_hostname to enhance the security of HTTPS requests. Additionally, the user built a foundational structure for managing services, adding an example service for Tor bridges and handling the addition of official blocklists.
csvproxydiscoveringcensorshiptesting
tor2web/Tor2web
Dec 2011 - Feb 2014
Tor2web is an HTTP proxy software that enables access to Tor Hidden Services by mean of common web browsers
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Arturo's primary contributions revolve around implementing and refining the Tor2web software. They introduced core features such as rewriting links and handling connections through Tor. Further development included the addition of utils files, SSL support, and the incorporation of a configurable blocklist. The user also performed code cleanup and optimized the handling of images and chunked encoding.
pythonproxyaaron-swartzanonimous-proxiesdigital-human-rights
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