Paolo Zaino
Freelance Software Engineer Consultant And Contractor Security & Performance Specialist
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaolo Zaino is a freelance software engineer and security/performance specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience and eight years at senior/principal levels in high-performance network security. He designs and implements secure, scalable systems—from bytecode interpreters and compilers to HPC intrusion detection/prevention and deep packet inspection—using Go, Rust, C/C++, assembly and Linux kernel tooling. Paolo blends research-driven R&D with practical delivery, having led HPC IPS/IDS efforts and worked on AI/ML-driven cybersecurity features at companies like LookingGlass and ZeroFox. He also maintains and contributes to open-source projects and writes technical articles, with a particular affinity for Linux/BSD and vintage OSes like RISC OS and Amiga OS. Clients hire him for modernizing legacy systems, squeezing performance from constrained stacks, or training teams to adopt robust security and low-level engineering practices.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (93)
gcc10
linked-list10
crawler10
doubly-linked-list10
cybersecurity10
dynamic-array10
circular-buffer10
wimp10
etl-process10
crawling10
indexer10
dynamic-data10
ansi10
buffer10
datatypes10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pzaino/MicroFB
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
A simple Frame Buffer library in C++11 for RISC OS
Contributions:30 reviews, 52 PRs, 57 pushes in 10 months
cppcpp11cpp11-libraryframebufferrisc-os
RISC-OS-Community/mUnit
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
This is a port to RISC OS of the munit library for C Unit Testing
Contributions:20 commits, 19 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
testingmunitrisc-osunitrisc
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