Paolo Smiraglia
Senior IT Solution Architect at AGID - Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Smiraglia is a Senior IT Solution Architect and cyber security engineer with 16 years of experience designing and operating secure, cloud-based identity and infrastructure services for Italian public institutions and industry. He has led technical coordination for European eIDAS projects and built the Italian eIDAS node, pairing deep hands‑on skills (OpenStack, SaltStack, ELK/Kafka, Tomcat/HAProxy, Debian/Ubuntu) with policy-level representation. An active Linux addict and infosec enthusiast, Paolo contributes to open-source security tooling—most notably adding PKCE support to the panva/node-oidc-provider—demonstrating practical improvements to OAuth2 security. He also teaches cloud and cybersecurity topics at national schools and universities, reflecting a talent for translating complex architectures into operable systems and curricula. Known for a teardown-and-rebuild curiosity that started in childhood, he consistently turns curiosity into secure, auditable solutions.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Commerciale "Adriano Olivetti", LecceMaster Degree, Computer Engineering, 102/110, Master Degree, Computer Engineering, 102/110 at Polytechnic University of TurinBechelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 89/110, Bechelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 89/110 at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
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Github Skills (16)
nodejs10
javascript10
authorization-server10
oauth10
openid-connect10
oidc-provider9
authorization9
testing9
credential-provider9
openid-provider9
data-provider9
service-provider9
theme-provider9
authorizations9
server8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
panva/node-oidc-provider
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
OpenID Certified™ OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server implementation for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paolo contributed to the implementation of PKCE support within the authorization server, enhancing the security of the OAuth 2.0 flow. They focused on integrating the PKCE structure and checking the code challenge method's support. The contributions involved modifying core authorization code handling and token grant mechanisms. The user also added tests to validate the PKCE implementation.
openidconnectcertifiednodejsoauth2openid
italia/spid-shibboleth-proxy-docker
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
SPID authentication proxy based on Shibboleth service provider
Contributions:145 commits, 16 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 4 months
providerproxyspidauthenticationspid-authentication
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