Marco Fargetta
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Fargetta is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating distributed systems and grid computing infrastructures, now contributing at Red Hat from Catania. He brings deep systems-level expertise across Java, C/C++, Objective-C and web technologies, with a strong focus on authentication, authorization and security for research e-infrastructures. Marco’s career blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Engineering) with hands-on project leadership—he led Grid training activities in the EUAsiaGrid project and helped architect INFN services used at national and EU scale. An active back-end contributor to enterprise open-source like the Dogtag Certificate System, he has improved protocol support (e.g., AES for SCEP) and modernized build and test workflows. Colleagues value his rare combination of OS internals knowledge and practical delivery experience across Unix/Linux, macOS and iPhone platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Engineering, Ph.D, Computer Engineering at Università di Catania
English
Stackoverflow
19reputation
121reached
3answers
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Github Skills (19)
cert10
back-end-development10
java10
javas10
certificate-authority10
pki10
ca10
testing9
cmake9
aes8
security8
tomcat6
liferay6
linux6
debian6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dogtagpki/pki
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA) which supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:774 reviews, 70 commits, 324 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the Dogtag Certificate System, focusing on backend functionalities and testing. Their work involved fixing bugs in test scripts and addressing issues related to CMake cache and group membership. They also implemented new features like adding AES support to the SCEP protocol. Furthermore, they moved realms to the server package and improved code quality by addressing SonarCloud code smells.
smartcardcertificate-transparencydogtag-pkicertificate-authorityaspects
osct/IDPPublic
Jun 2014 - Jul 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 31 pushes, 3 comments in 7 years 1 month
pythonidpsouthcatch-allsouth-africa
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