Federico Scrinzi
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFederico Scrinzi is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in vulnerability research, large-scale access control and site reliability systems at Google, and a deep academic background in security and privacy from EIT Digital (TU Berlin and University of Twente). He combines hands-on systems engineering with applied cryptography and math instincts, frequently participating in CTF competitions with team "Tasteless" to sharpen offensive and defensive security skills. A long-time open-source contributor, he improved the user experience of the widely used oh-my-zsh project by building and hardening its theme chooser across platforms. Based in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, he brings a research-minded approach to production problems, informed by a Master’s thesis on behavioral analysis of obfuscated code and early work on social network analysis and web backends. Notably, he blends deep technical rigor (top grades and cum laude honors) with practical impact at scale inside one of the largest engineering organizations in the world.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), EIT ICT Labs Master School in Security & Privacy, 10/10 cum laude, Master of Science (M.Sc.), EIT ICT Labs Master School in Security & Privacy, 10/10 cum laude at Universiteit TwenteEIT ICT Labs Master School in Security & Privacy, EIT ICT Labs Master School in Security & Privacy at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informatica, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informatica, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di TrentoI.T.I. "G. Marconi" - Rovereto (TN)
Italian, Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
wp-theme10
shell10
wordpress-themes10
zsh10
cli10
cli-app9
plugin9
cli-application9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Federico primarily focused on developing and improving the theme chooser tool within the oh-my-zsh framework. Their contributions include implementing the initial theme chooser, fixing issues, adding features such as listing available themes and adding the ability to save to a favorites list. They also adapted the tool for various platforms, including Mac OS. These changes enhanced the user experience and customization options of the zsh shell.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
volpino/Algoritmi_e_strutture_di_dati
Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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