Bruno Passeri is a versatile founder and software leader with nine years of professional engineering experience and a lifelong passion for coding that began in childhood. As CEO of SkyDubh and senior lead across multiple companies, he combines infrastructure engineering, system administration, and full-stack development with product design and team leadership. He has shipped production systems from blockchain-backed B2B APIs to dynamic image pipelines and progressive web apps, and contributed security-focused fixes to notable open-source projects like OSSEC. A multidisciplinarian who also designs e‑books, composes music, and produces multimedia, he excels at turning cross-domain curiosity into practical tools that improve workflows and user experience. Based in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a track record of upstreaming fixes and collaborating with open-source maintainers.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
STEM, General Studies, STEM, General Studies at Scuola Media Statale «Enrico Fermi»
English as a Foreign Language, English as a Foreign Language at Middlesex University
General Studies, General Studies at V° Circolo Didattico
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
Technical and Commercial Expert, Accounting and Computer Science, Technical and Commercial Expert, Accounting and Computer Science at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale «Aterno»
Music, Music at Centro Didattico Musicale Italiano
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 348 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily worked on adding and fixing features for the Prime Video Kodi add-on. Their contributions involved fixing login issues, adding support for Prime Video area codes, implementing catalog browsing with lazy loading, improving subtitles handling, and enhancing the overall user experience. The changes were focused on fetching video resources and implementing various features such as improved caching, user profile support, and playlist management.
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily worked on the `src/os_csyslogd/alert.c` file, focusing on improvements to the alerting and logging functionality within the OSSEC intrusion detection system. They addressed issues such as truncated log messages, extended escaping mechanisms to other fields, and implemented safety checks while also contributing to general code cleanup and uniforming of code. Their contributions enhanced the system's ability to handle and transmit alert data effectively.
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