Federico Di Pierro
Technical Lead - Open Source Software Engineering at Falco Security OSS
Limbiate, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFederico Di Pierro is a Technical Lead in open source software engineering with 11 years of experience building low-level systems and runtime security tools, currently leading OSS efforts at Cisco and serving as a core maintainer of Falco (CNCF Runtime Security). He has deep expertise in kernel drivers, eBPF, and container-aware instrumentation—contributions to falcosecurity/libs and sysdig show hands-on work fixing BPF verifier issues, extending syscall and overlayfs support, and evolving driver architectures. Federico combines backend and embedded systems experience with a strong QA mindset, having hardened yaml-cpp parsing and implemented edge-case tests to improve library reliability. His career moves from embedded C to cloud-native security reflect a practical focus on production-grade robustness and maintainability. Based in Lombardy, Italy, he pairs technical leadership with active upstream maintenance, helping bridge product requirements and complex kernel-level implementation details.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea breve Ingegneria informatica, Laurea breve Ingegneria informatica at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English
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Github Skills (32)
c-language10
parser10
system-programming10
ebpf10
testing10
plugin-development10
run-time10
cmake10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
parsing10
parse10
yaml10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
falcosecurity/libs
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
libsinsp, libscap, the kernel module driver, and the eBPF driver sources
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:53 releases, 2881 reviews, 320 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily worked on the low-level system aspects of the `libs` repository, focusing on the drivers and supporting libraries. They addressed BPF probe verifier issues, fixed eBPF issues, added support for handling various kernel configurations, and extended support for system calls. The user also refactored and improved code related to container metadata and added support for overlayfs root detection for container image file systems.
kernelbpflibsinspebpflinux
falcosecurity/falco
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud Native Runtime Security
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:20 releases, 1029 reviews, 204 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on code refactoring and improvement, as demonstrated by commits focused on code constification, variable renaming, and method optimization within the Falco engine. The changes centered around improving the core functionality of the runtime security system. The user also contributed to build-related tasks, including fixing compilation issues.
containersseccompsecurityruntimeebpf
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