Nicola Rustignoli
Co-CEO at SCION Association
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicola Rustignoli is a technology leader and co-CEO based in Zurich with 11 years of experience advancing secure, reliable networking through the SCION ecosystem. He blends research experience at ETH Zürich with hands-on roles in security engineering and customer-facing technical account management to drive adoption of open specifications and open-source implementations. At the SCION Association he has moved from technical community leadership into executive stewardship, focusing on pragmatic interoperability and real-world deployment. His background in telecommunications and electrical engineering across Politecnico di Torino, Tongji University and ETH Zürich informs a systems-first approach to network architecture and security. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable translating academic research into deployable tooling and guiding community governance to scale emerging internet infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Electrical Engineering and IT, MSc in Electrical Engineering and IT at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichInformation Technology Engineering, Information Technology Engineering at Tongji UniversityTelecommunication engineering, Telecommunication engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (49)
architecture10
bandwidth10
internet10
sctp9
measurement9
ietf9
udp9
tcp9
traffic9
gnuradio9
network8
networking8
amazon7
amazon-web-services7
aws7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scionassociation/scion-dp_I-D
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Specification of the SCION data plane
Contributions:6 releases, 126 reviews, 47 PRs in 1 year
scionassociation/scion-research_I-D
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 34 reviews, 12 PRs in 7 months
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