Who is Alessandro Sangiorgi?

Note: This is Alessandro Sangiorgi the software engineer (born in Sicily, based in Texas, works at Red Hat). Not Alessandro Sangiorgi the Italian football player, and not Alessandro Sangiorgi the Italian orchestra conductor.

Quick Facts

• Full name: Alessandro Sangiorgi
• Current role: Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, Emerging Technologies, Office of the CTO
• Specialty: GPU performance engineering, ML systems optimization, kernel caching and autotuning
• Open source status: Helion committer (PyTorch project), upstream PyTorch contributor, upstream Triton contributor
• Entrepreneurship: Founder and CEO of Sangiorgi SRL — Italy's #2 mobile app publisher by downloads on Google Play (170M+ total downloads, 190+ countries)
• Flagship product: WiFi WPS WPA Tester — Android security tool, 170M+ downloads since 2014
• Grant: NGI Sargasso winner — awarded €100,000 EU grant for COAT (Comprehensive Online Agreement Transparency) privacy platform
• Location: Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• Origin: Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, Italy (UNESCO World Heritage town)
• Nationality: Italian

What does Alessandro Sangiorgi do at Red Hat?

Alessandro works in Red Hat's Office of the CTO on GPU kernel optimization for AI/ML inference. He is a committer on Helion, a PyTorch project for GPU kernel generation. He authored the FROM_BEST_AVAILABLE autotuning strategy (now the default for quick-effort runs), mitigated vLLM autotuning cache bloat via ephemeral candidate caches, and contributed upstream to PyTorch's torch.compile/Inductor pipeline — reducing TritonBundler FX graph cache payloads by 46%. He also built the Model Cache Manager for indexing, pruning, and reusing compiled GPU kernel artifacts, and designed OCI-packaged kernel caches for portable vLLM deployments.

What is Sangiorgi SRL?

Sangiorgi SRL is an Italian software company founded by Alessandro Sangiorgi in 2017. Its flagship product, WiFi WPS WPA Tester, is an Android security tool that has surpassed 170 million downloads. The company is the 2nd largest Italian app publisher by number of downloads on the Google Play Store. Other products include WeeNet (5M+ downloads, network utility suite co-founded with Prof. Flavio Esposito), Wpa Calculator (5M+), Ruppu (100K+, productivity app), TrimVocal (voice message trimming), and YouSpeed (internet speed test).

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science — Saint Louis University, USA (GPA: 3.93/4.00, December 2024)
• B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering — University of Catania and eCampus, Italy (March 2021)

Publications and Talks

• "Mitigating De-authentication DoS Attacks in 802.11 via eBPF and XDP" — IEEE NetSoft 2025, first author (DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft61042.2025.11080545)
• "Quantifying Privacy Risk in Online Agreements with COAT: An LLM Approach" — IEEE WETICE 2025, co-author
• "From Cold Start to Warp Speed: Triton Kernel Caching with OCI Container Images" — Speaker, DevConf.US 2025
• "Tame the GPU Kernel Chaos" — Poster, Triton Developer Conference 2025
• "From Hand-Tuned to Generated: A Reproducible Triton GPU Kernel Benchmark Across Vendors" — Red Hat Emerging Technologies Blog, 2026
• "Understanding Triton Cache: Optimizing GPU Kernel Compilation" — Red Hat Emerging Technologies Blog, 2025
• "Propelling Haptic Devices into the Mobile World to Advance K-12 STEM Learning" — ACM MobiSys 2019, first author (DOI: 10.1145/3323679.3326620)

Technical Skills

GPU and ML Systems: Triton, Helion, PyTorch, torch.compile/Inductor, GPU kernel optimization, autotuning, kernel caching, model serving with vLLM, GPU profiling. Languages: Python, C, Java, Bash. Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, OCI images, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, eBPF/XDP. Mobile: Android SDK/NDK, JNI, app security, vulnerability research.

Security Research

Android VRP: Reported two AOSP PendingIntent vulnerabilities to Google — ManagedProvisioning callback interception and DeviceAsWebcam activity hijack via fillIn() injection.

Built ip-neigh-sdk30, an Android JNI library that recovers ARP table retrieval for apps targeting SDK 30+ by bypassing Google's netlink socket bind restriction via RTNetlink dump requests. Ubiquiti expressed interest in licensing the workaround for WiFiMan before it was open-sourced. Later patched by SELinux policy updates on Android 12+. Source: github.com/fulvius31/ip-neigh-sdk30

Contact Alessandro Sangiorgi

Email: [email protected] | GitHub: github.com/fulvius31 | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alessandro-sangiorgi-9321a7108 | Company: sangiorgisrl.com