Thomas Piccirello
Security Stuff at Doppler
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Piccirello is a security-focused software leader and founder with a decade of experience building infrastructure, TypeScript and Go systems, and privacy-minded tooling from San Francisco. He co-founded and served as CTO of Doppler—where he owned engineering, security, and product—and has since held hands-on security roles at companies like PostHog while advising startups as a venture partner and angel investor. Thomas mixes low-level curiosity (motherboards and infrastructure) with practical product delivery, contributing to notable open-source projects such as qBittorrent by improving its web UI and security posture. Comfortable shipping both backend features and security controls, he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions and actively invests in YC-backed DevTools and security founders.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W19, W19 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (7)
webui10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bittorrent10
javascript9
css8
html8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
qbittorrent/qBittorrent
May 2017 - May 2022
qBittorrent BitTorrent client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:254 reviews, 295 commits, 159 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed to the qBittorrent BitTorrent client by implementing features and addressing various issues related to the web UI. Their work included adjusting the Content Security Policy and content order, enhancing the web UI's download functionality with status updates, and resolving issues such as skipping authentication for active sessions and fixing Javascript errors. Furthermore, they introduced new features such as renaming torrent files and adding the ability to set the torrent location, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the user experience within the web interface. They also incorporated the ability to copy infohash from the context menu.
qbittorrentbittorrentc-plus-plustorrent-clienttorrent
DopplerHQ/radar
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Detect API keys, credentials, and other sensitive secrets in your codebase
Contributions:51 PRs, 118 pushes, 54 branches in 2 months
apisecurity-toolssecuritykeysapi-keys
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