Davide Baldo
Senior Software Engineer at Infracost
Muscoline, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Baldo is a senior software engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, backend services, and low-level projects from homegrown OS kernels to networking frameworks. Based in Muscoline, Italy, he has recently focused on secure, scalable messaging and encryption at Ockam—contributing Rust fixes, a Kafka sidecar, and message encryption improvements—and now brings that expertise to Infracost. His background blends long-term project leadership at ZeXtras with an obsessive self-taught period that produced an HTTP server, IRC client, 2D games, a C++ networking framework with hot-updating, and even exploit and neural-networking experiments. Comfortable across systems, security, and performance tuning, he’s as likely to dive into cryptographic integrations as to optimize CLI bootstrap time or prototype hardware-software home automation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces practical trade-offs from deep technical curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Padovahigh school
Italian, English
Github Skills (13)
kafka10
rust10
encryption10
message-bus8
queue8
queuing8
message-queue8
authorization7
cryptography7
authorizations7
authentication7
distributed-systems7
user-authentication7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:557 reviews, 2 commits, 306 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on implementing and fixing issues related to the Rust implementation of the Ockam project, targeting the kafka component. Their contributions included fixing type tag IDs and reducing CLI bootstrap time. They also implemented a usable Kafka sidecar, and also contributed to the encryption of the kafka messages and the overall integration and tests of the project.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
zextras/reposync
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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