Nicola Ruggero
Cyber Security & Compliance Manager at Nethive
Greater Padova (Padua) Metropolitan Area Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNicola Ruggero is a Cyber Security & Compliance Manager and systems architect with 15 years of experience designing and securing IT infrastructure across retail and service environments. Based in the Padua metropolitan area, he has progressed from system operator to CTO-level IT infrastructure leadership and now leads compliance efforts at Nethive. Hands-on background includes system engineering, backend development contributions to the well-known open-source xrdp RDP server, and long-term involvement with KDE, reflecting deep practical Unix/Linux expertise. Trained originally in molecular biology and with formal studies in composition and voice, he brings a curious, multidisciplinary perspective to technical problem solving and risk management.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea, Biologia Molecolare, Laurea, Biologia Molecolare at Università degli Studi di PadovaConservatorio "F. Venezze" di RovigoBiologia Molecolare, Biologia Molecolare at Universidad de A Coruna
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
c1710
linux10
rdp10
c1110
remote-desktop10
rd10
networking9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neutrinolabs/xrdp
Oct 2010 - Jan 2011
xrdp: an open source RDP server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily contributed to the xrdp project, an open-source RDP server. Their commits focused on implementing new features such as bell (pcspeaker) support, improving logging messages, and cleaning up code. They also made minor code improvements, including fixing typos, initializing variables, and checking for null pointers.
xrdplinuxremote-desktoprdpc
nicolar/maint-http
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Fast-superlight http "backup" backend for haproxy
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
backendhaproxybackupproxy
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