Luca Garofalo is a software engineer from Italy with five years of experience specializing in OSINT and digital investigation tooling. He is the back-end developer and primary author of Mr.Holmes, a Python-based OSINT framework noted for phone number and website intelligence features and adopted by international firms in intelligence and cybersecurity. Since its 2021 release, Mr.Holmes has been cited in articles, conferences and publications including GeeksforGeeks and eForensics Magazine, and was integrated into the Sherlock-Linux toolkit in 2023. Fascinated by technology, psychology, and investigative methods, Luca blends analytical curiosity with practical API and data-integration skills. An anime enthusiast and self-taught programmer, he applies a hacker-minded approach to shipping reliable reconnaissance capabilities that support real-world threat and investigation workflows.
4 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Information technology, High School Diploma, Information technology at High school
Contributions:33 releases, 480 commits, 653 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Luca's primary contributions involve the implementation of functionalities within the Python-based Mr. Holmes OSINT tool. The user added code for phone number and website OSINT, including functions for Google dorking, social media searches, and various data lookups. The commits reveal interactions with Python libraries such as requests, urllib, json, and phonenumbers, suggesting back-end development with a focus on information gathering and API integrations for OSINT.
Contributions:22 commits, 32 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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