Edoardo Pirovano
Software Engineering Lead at Meticulous
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdoardo Pirovano is a software engineering lead with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and security-focused infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Meticulous in London. He combines deep technical chops—from low-level back-end improvements to automation—with a research background (PhD from Imperial College) and an MMath from Oxford. Edoardo has a track record at GitHub, Lacework and as a founding engineer at Meticulous, shipping production features and shaping platform capabilities. His open-source contributions to CodeQL tooling (vscode-codeql extension and codeql-action) show a focus on improving developer experience, query result handling and CI automation, including practical enhancements like CSV result views and cross-repo query search. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges research-grade rigor with product-focused delivery. He often surfaces subtle UX and performance wins that make security tooling noticeably more usable for engineers.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MMathCompSci Mathematics and Computer Science, MMathCompSci Mathematics and Computer Science at University of OxfordPhD Computing, PhD Computing at Imperial College LondonA-Levels, A-Levels at Mougins British International School
English, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (29)
github-ci10
query-optimization10
vscode-extension10
codeql10
e-mail10
githubaction-workflow10
mysql9
testing9
twitter9
regex9
yaml9
php9
html9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql-action
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Actions for running CodeQL analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 325 reviews, 366 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Edoardo primarily focused on enhancing the CodeQL action's functionality. Their contributions involved adding external Git repositories to the search path for custom queries. Additionally, they added and modified functionality around the handling of environment files for Windows. The user also introduced several updates to the CLI usage and added configuration options.
code-scanningsemmle-qladvanced-securitycodeqlci
github/vscode-codeql
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
An extension for Visual Studio Code that adds rich language support for CodeQL
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 24 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Edoardo primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the CodeQL extension for VS Code. Their work included expanding options for the disk cache evaluator, implementing sorting capabilities for query history (by name, date, and result count), and adding options for passing additional arguments when running tests. Furthermore, they implemented the viewing of query results as a CSV and other minor improvements. These changes indicate a focus on improving the performance, usability, and result presentation of the CodeQL extension.
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