Gian-carlo Pascutto
Security Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation
East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolGian-carlo Pascutto is a Security Engineering Manager with 18 years of experience specializing in system-level hardening, embedded development, and high-performance C/C++ software. At Mozilla he leads OS Integration and Hardening for Firefox and has hands-on experience improving sandbox policies and Linux security features for critical browser components. He built award-winning game engines—authoring multiple World Computer Chess Championships and Leela Zero—bringing a rare combination of research-grade AI, parallelization and production engineering. His background spans DSP, audio codecs, high-temperature electronics and product delivery from embedded devices to large-scale software platforms. A pragmatic leader who still codes, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects and routinely translates low-level security and performance insights into deployable, cross-platform solutions.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Ghent UniversityOLV College OudenaardeM.Sc., Industrial Sciences in Electronics, Magna cum laude, M.Sc., Industrial Sciences in Electronics, Magna cum laude at Hogeschool Gent
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
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Github Skills (30)
sandbox10
c-language10
python10
back-end-development10
it-security10
gecko10
security10
firefox10
cprogramming-language10
gzip9
git-repository9
linux9
performance-optimization9
optmization9
optimisation9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
leela-zero/leela-zero
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 404 commits, 545 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Gian-carlo's contributions focused on optimizing and maintaining the back-end infrastructure of the Go engine. They addressed compatibility issues with weight files by replacing the zstd compression with zip and removing redundant batch normalization parameters. Further contributions include code cleanup by removing unused functions, and refactoring the network weights file loading process to enable flexible network structures.
golangalphago-zerozeroalphagoknowledge
mozilla/gecko-dev
Sep 2011 - Jun 2022
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:279 commits in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gian-carlo's primary contribution involves modifying the sandbox policy within the gecko-dev repository, specifically to restrict the use of `sendmmsg` within content processes. This suggests a focus on improving the security of the browser's content rendering capabilities by preventing the potential misuse of socket functionalities. The changes impact the Linux sandbox configuration, highlighting the user's work in a domain critical to the overall security posture of the Firefox browser. The commits demonstrate an understanding of system-level security mechanisms and their implementation.
repositoriesfirefoxmercurialgit-mirrormozilla
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