Riccardo Petrocco
Senior Staff Engineer at Spotify
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Petrocco is a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient data and distributed systems, currently shaping Spotify’s Event Delivery and leading the migration of its data infrastructure to Google Cloud. He holds a PhD focused on P2P networks and has blended academic rigor with production engineering since his work on Libswift and the Tribler privacy-enhanced BitTorrent client. At Spotify he progressed from data engineer to senior technical leadership, pairing hands-on implementation with project management for large-scale cloud transitions. Co-author of the PPSP peer-to-peer streaming protocol (RFC7574), he brings deep protocol and networking expertise that informs his work on high-throughput, privacy-conscious data delivery. Based in Barcelona, Riccardo combines hardware-aware systems thinking from his Computer Engineering background with a knack for simplifying complex distributed architectures.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc CE Computer Engineering, MSc CE Computer Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyBEng / BSCS Informatics engineering (Computer science / Computer Engineering), BEng / BSCS Informatics engineering (Computer science / Computer Engineering) at Università degli studi Roma TRE
English, Italian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
python10
p2p10
networking9
tunneling9
communications9
data-communication9
tunnel9
net9
network9
decentralization9
api8
apidoc8
bittorrent8
tor7
torrent7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tribler/tribler
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Riccardo focused on modifying the SwiftProcess component of the Tribler project, likely related to network communication and data transfer. Their commits involved removing a "waiting" parameter, updating communication protocols with Dispersy, and implementing tunnel management features (registering and unregistering tunnels). These changes also included error handling for tunnel registration. Furthermore, the user adjusted the Dispersy tunnel settings within the main application configuration.
pythoncontent-discoverytransmissionprivacyp2p
libswift/libswift
Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 114 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
ietfreference-implementation
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