Silvia Puglisi
On-Call Lecturer Information Security & Data Privacy
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSilvia Puglisi is an information security and privacy specialist with 11 years of engineering and research experience, currently lecturing on secure systems and data privacy at UPC while leading the Network Health team at The Tor Project. She blends hands-on software and systems engineering—contributing full-stack features to well-known privacy tools like OnionShare—with research-driven metrics design to collect insights without compromising user anonymity. Her background spans DevOps, ETL/ELT architectures, and UI work for privacy-centric open-source projects, plus experience founding community initiatives such as Barcelona Cyber Security and organizing BSides events. Holding a PhD-focused trajectory in Telematics Engineering and an MSc in Management of Information Systems, she pairs academic rigor with practical delivery across backend, frontend, and security domains. Notably, she implements privacy-preserving data collection at scale for Tor while continuing active mirrored development visible on her Git repositories.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Management of Information Systems, M.Sc Management of Information Systems at Trinity College DublinComputer Engineering Computer Science Physics Electronic Mathematics, Computer Engineering Computer Science Physics Electronic Mathematics at Politecnico di MilanoUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
bootstrap10
python10
css10
modals10
ui-design10
flask-ask10
modalview10
uid10
modal-dialog10
file-sharing10
front-end-development10
html10
modal-windows10
bootstra10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
torproject/support
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:210 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Silvia implemented initial CSS structure and examples for a modal component within the Tor Project support repository. They integrated the Bootstrap modal component and made changes to an existing JavaScript file. The primary focus appears to be on UI development, incorporating styling and potentially localization aspects for a modal window. The changes suggest a contribution to the user interface of the project.
onionshare/onionshare
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Silvia primarily contributed to the implementation of website sharing and directory listing features for OnionShare. This involved adding new command-line interface (CLI) options and integrating the functionality within the graphical user interface (GUI). They modified both the backend (Python) and frontend (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) components to support website serving, including route definitions, file serving logic, and UI updates for displaying file listings.
pythontor-onion-servicefile-sharingonion-serviceanonymously
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