Fabio Pietrosanti is a cybersecurity engineer and serial co-founder based in Milan who blends hands-on security engineering with startup strategy across social tech, privacy and logistics. He has worked in network and information security since 2000 and founded PrivateWave to commercialize communication encryption before co-founding the Hermes Center to advance GlobaLeaks and Tor2web for whistleblowing and anonymous publishing. An active back-end and DevOps contributor to Tor2web and GlobaLeaks, he focuses on stability, incident handling, secure deployment and clear documentation. Beyond privacy and encryption he builds operational startups—PLogistics and Haulersense—applying AI, supply-chain integrations and sustainable last-mile solutions. With studies in Oriental languages and Japanese, he pairs technical depth, counterintelligence experience and policy advocacy to turn complex security and governance challenges into practical, mission-driven ventures.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Pegaso General Management, Pegaso General Management at MIP Politecnico di Milano
Experimental european college, Experimental european college at College Selva dei Pini - Rome
Oriental languages, Oriental languages at Sapienza Università di Roma
cyberspace
Japanese speaking, Japanese speaking at Istituto Ichi-Ban
Economics, Economics at Interstudy National School
Tor2web is an HTTP proxy software that enables access to Tor Hidden Services by mean of common web browsers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 81 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the Tor2web project. Their work included fixing a critical crashing issue, implementing a JavaScript inclusion fix, and making adjustments to the installation script. The user also added a test example for Tor checking and added scripts for generating DH automatically. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and enhancing core project features.
GlobaLeaks is a free and open-source whistleblowing software enabling anyone to easily set up and maintain a secure reporting platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:255 commits, 39 pushes, 881 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and fixing URLs within the README and architecture documents. They also introduced and added debugging logs to the submission models and handlers, using log.debug and log.exception to catch execution flow issues. Furthermore, they worked on correcting indentation errors and addressing database locking problems related to the submission process, indicating a strong understanding of back-end code and potential DevOps tasks related to deployment and configuration.
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