Leonardo Maccari
Associate Professor
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Maccari is an Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with 13 years of experience researching and engineering large-scale networked systems, particularly Community Networks and network security. He has driven interdisciplinary EU research as technical coordinator of netCommons and led privacy-aware filtering research during a postdoc at Trento, blending rigorous academic methods with practical deployment insights. His work spans routing, scalability, and real-world mesh networking, and he actively participates in the Italian community network ninux.org, mixing research with hands-on hacktivism. Co-founder of Tracking4Fun, he also brings entrepreneurial experience in building localization devices for athletes, reflecting a knack for turning network research into tangible products.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Github Skills (79)
graph-algorithms10
network-graph10
graph-visualization10
graph-theory10
mesh10
wireless10
network-analysis9
python9
complex-networks9
networking9
visualizer9
topology9
netjson9
tcp9
terrain9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leonardomaccari/community_networks_analysis
May 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
netCommonsEU/community-networks-monitoring-tools
Jun 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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