Edoardo Spadolini
Software Engineer at Teleport
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolEdoardo Spadolini is a software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently contributing to Teleport on secure access and authentication tooling. He combines strong backend and security-focused engineering—hardening access request handling, improving authentication logging, and tightening SSH session behavior—with practical open-source contributions to notable projects like Teleport and the widely used ZNC IRC bouncer. Trained as a summa-cum-laude applied mathematician from Sapienza University of Rome, he brings rigorous problem-solving and attention to correctness to production systems. Edoardo’s work often targets subtle security and usability gaps—such as escaping reasons in admin tooling and removing insecure SASL options—showing a knack for finding impactful, non-obvious improvements.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM, Matematica applicata, 110/110 cum laude, Laurea Magistrale LM, Matematica applicata, 110/110 cum laude at Sapienza Università di Roma
Github Skills (24)
irc-bot10
c-language10
ssl10
it-security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
security10
zinc10
go10
irb10
golang10
access-control10
teleport10
irc10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:3742 reviews, 274 commits, 1357 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Edoardo primarily focused on improving security and features related to access requests, specifically ensuring that the resolution of these requests is not missed. They made several changes to the `tool/tsh/tsh_test.go` and `tool/tsh/tsh.go` files, implementing code to handle and verify access request resolution on the correct cluster. Additionally, they were involved in hardening security by escaping reasons in tctl and by implementing improved logging for authentication events, as well as making improvements to the handling of SSH session.
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znc/znc
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Edoardo primarily focused on enhancing the ZNC IRC bouncer's functionality. They modified the `sasl` module, removing outdated and potentially insecure authentication methods and improving the help text. Furthermore, the user updated the Csocket file, including new cipher options and related configurations. The user also added a feature to expand an empty string for quit messages.
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