Fabio Colacio
Staff Firmware Engineer at Mercury Security
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFabio Colacio is a Staff Firmware Engineer based in Long Beach with a decade of experience building embedded Linux and bare-metal systems in C, focused on security-sensitive controllers. At Mercury Security he has led designs for secure boot, authenticated firmware delivery, a virtual encrypted EEPROM, and an application sandbox while also acting as scrum master and DevOps contributor to shrink release cycles. His background spans vulnerability patches, major legacy refactors to meet security standards, and building an OSDP library with secure channel support from his internship work. Beyond low-level firmware, Fabio contributes to open-source front-end projects—improving UI/UX and responsive Markdown themes—showing a rare combination of embedded systems depth and polish on user-facing interfaces. He also tutors computer science courses, reflecting a commitment to mentoring and clear technical communication.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
English, French
Github Skills (9)
css10
markdown10
responsive-design10
gtk10
markdown-it10
ui-design10
python9
html9
gnome6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jasonm23/markdown-css-themes
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
A collection of css themes for Markdown
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily focused on improving the styling of Markdown themes within the repository. Their commits added and refined table formatting across multiple CSS files. Additionally, the user addressed image display by setting the `max-width` property to 100% for images within various themes to ensure responsiveness. These changes enhanced the visual presentation and user experience of the Markdown themes.
themescssthemes-cssmarkdown
maoschanz/drawing
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Simple image editor for Linux
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Fabio focused on enhancing the user interface of the drawing application. Their contributions involved adding features to adjust the UI background, integrating color pickers, and modifying the appearance settings within the preferences menu. They also updated the image display to reflect the chosen background color. The commits demonstrate a focus on UI development and the integration of user-configurable settings.
elementary-appsgnome3gtk3imageimage-editor
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