Gianmatteo Palmieri
Software Engineer 2 at Sysdig
Italy
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Top SchoolGianmatteo Palmieri is a Software Engineer 2 at Sysdig with 11 years of hands-on experience and a background in computer engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche. A lifelong Linux user and FOSS advocate, he blends cybersecurity interest with practical backend and build engineering skills. He has contributed to the high-profile Falco cloud-native runtime security project, improving build systems, dependency management, tests, and plugin metrics. Known for refactoring complex builds to support system libraries and bundled options, he brings pragmatic attention to maintainability and reproducible builds. Based in Italy, he combines academic foundations with real-world security-focused engineering at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Computer Engineering, Laurea triennale, Computer Engineering at Università Politecnica delle Marche
English, Italian
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Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
c-language10
run-time10
build-system10
cmake10
falco10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
container9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
cloud-native9
yaml8
rust6
operating-system6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
falcosecurity/falco
May 2023 - Jun 2024
Cloud Native Runtime Security
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Gianmatteo's contributions primarily focus on improving the build process and refactoring code related to dependencies within the Falco project. They added options to use system-level libraries like `cxxopts` and `cpp-httplib`, refactored the build system to use `find_package` where applicable, and introduced options for bundled dependencies. Furthermore, the user implemented tests and addressed logical issues in the engine's exception handling, adding checks for valid macro/list names and unique exception names. They also enabled metrics collection for plugins.
containersseccompsecurityruntimeebpf
mrgian/libs
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
libsinsp, libscap, the kernel module driver, and the eBPF driver sources
Contributions:183 pushes, 32 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
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