Elia Pinto
Senior Advisor at Banca d'Italia
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolElia Pinto is a seasoned IT security and systems specialist with 16+ years of experience, currently serving as Senior Advisor in the IT Department of Banca d'Italia. He blends deep hands-on skills in UNIX/Linux administration, DBA work, cryptography and WAF/mod_security development with a long history of RPM packaging, build-system engineering and directory/authentication technologies (Kerberos, SSO, LDAP). A prolific open-source contributor and RPM5 developer, he has also contributed to the Git codebase improving IPv6 support and security-related tooling. Certified at advanced levels by Red Hat and multiple GIAC credentials (plus CEH), he teaches applied cryptography for data protection and plays active leadership roles in Italian cybersecurity associations. Notably, his background spans legacy systems (VAX/VMS) to modern security architectures, giving him rare breadth across decades of enterprise infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
Master, Scienze dell'Informazione, Master, Scienze dell'Informazione at Università degli Studi di BariDiploma di Maturità, Perito Tecnico Industriale, 60/60, Diploma di Maturità, Perito Tecnico Industriale, 60/60 at Istituto A.Righi
English
Github Skills (23)
git10
maintenance10
scripting10
internals10
c1110
c1710
script10
command-line-tool10
sh10
shell10
architecture9
ssl9
code-standards9
tls129
tls139
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Sep 2012 - Apr 2022
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:205 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Elia primarily contributed to the Git source code, focusing on improvements and refactoring of core functionality. Their work included bug fixes and optimizations to shell scripts, the implementation of new features like supporting IPv6, and the modernization of codebase by adopting newer coding guidelines. They also worked on improving internal tooling, such as adding support for specifying the SSL version and making various command substitution improvements. The user’s work spans several areas of the Git codebase, improving its overall efficiency, security, and maintainability.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
devzero2000/POPT
Feb 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 2 months
expansionconfiguration-filesshellargvcli
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