Enrico Bassetti
Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
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Top SchoolEnrico Bassetti is a cybersecurity and networking researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning academia, industry, and open-source development. Currently a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency and a postdoc at TU Delft, he focuses on 5G/6G non-terrestrial network security, Internet protocol hardening, measurements, and IoT resilience. He holds a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and built the cyber range lab used to teach Practical Network Defense there, combining teaching with operational sysadmin and DevOps leadership. His industry background includes system integration, containerization and security consultancy, and low-level engineering such as Windows minifilter drivers. An active open-source contributor, he has improved robustness and input handling in widely used Go projects like restic and telebot, demonstrating attention to reliability and edge-case behavior. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs rigorous research with practitioner instincts for reliable, production-ready security tooling.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Perito capotecnico informatico, Industriale Informatico, 100/100, Perito capotecnico informatico, Industriale Informatico, 100/100 at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Informatico G. MarconiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English
Github Skills (16)
html10
testing10
json10
command-line-interface10
api-documentation10
error-handling10
backup10
postman-collection10
go10
telegram-bot10
api-design9
build-automation9
command-line9
cli9
asset-management9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
tucnak/telebot
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Telebot is a Telegram bot framework in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Enrico focused on improving the error handling and parsing of responses from the Telegram API within the `telebot` Go framework. Their contributions included refactoring error message parsing to use a JSON parser instead of regular expressions, and enhancing the `APIError` structure to include parameters from the Telegram API. Furthermore, the user fixed an issue related to the request body for setting group permissions and updated the code to decode big integers correctly. These changes enhance the framework's robustness and improve the handling of Telegram API responses.
golangtelegram-bottelegram-bot-frameworkbottelegram
restic/restic
Aug 2021 - Oct 2023
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 26 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Enrico focused on enhancing the backup functionality of the restic program. Their contributions include adding documentation for the `--stdin-from-command` option, refining the handling of standard input, and incorporating tests to improve the reliability of the `--stdin-from-command` feature. The user also addressed issues related to exit codes and output when running commands, ensuring that the backup process behaved as expected in different scenarios.
securededuperesticdeduplicationsecure-by-default
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