Jacopo Bufalino
Research Engineer at Aalto University
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJacopo Bufalino is a research engineer and PhD candidate with nine years of experience at the intersection of cloud and network security, Kubernetes, and site reliability engineering. Based in Paris, he blends academic rigor from Aalto University with hands-on production experience at companies like Smartum and Vaana, focusing on making cloud environments safer. A daily Kubernetes and Helm user, he brings practical SRE disciplines to research problems and has a background in distributed systems, visible light communication, and barcode security. His work spans building reliable infrastructure and probing novel security models, pairing strong engineering craftsmanship with curiosity-driven research. An uncommon strength is his ability to move between low-level protocol security studies and day-to-day cloud ops, translating research insights into operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus+ project, Computer Science, GPA 4.75/5, Erasmus+ project, Computer Science, GPA 4.75/5 at Aalto UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 110, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 110 at Politecnico di Torino
English, Spanish, French, Italian
Github Skills (69)
monitoring9
security9
k8s9
networking9
cni9
kernel9
papertrail8
kubernetes-networking8
javascript8
bpf8
ebpf8
data-structures8
aws-cloudwatch8
cloudwatch8
heap8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubesonde/kubesonde
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Kubesonde: network policy testing and verification in K8s
Contributions:4 reviews, 26 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 3 months
kubernetesnetwork-policysecurity
jackap/Ketje
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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