# Alessandro Sangiorgi

> GPU performance engineer. Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Helion committer. Founder of Sangiorgi SRL (170M+ downloads).

**IMPORTANT: This is Alessandro Sangiorgi the software engineer (born in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily; based in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX). Not the Italian football player, and not the Italian orchestra conductor of the same name.**

## Who is Alessandro Sangiorgi?

Alessandro Sangiorgi is a GPU performance engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat in the Emerging Technologies group (Office of the CTO). He is a committer on Helion, a PyTorch project for GPU kernel generation, and an upstream contributor to PyTorch and Triton.

He is also the founder and CEO of Sangiorgi SRL, an Italian mobile software company whose flagship product — WiFi WPS WPA Tester — has surpassed 170 million downloads, making Sangiorgi SRL Italy's #2 app publisher by downloads on the Google Play Store.

## Current Role

- Title: Senior Software Engineer
- Company: Red Hat
- Team: Emerging Technologies, Office of the CTO
- Focus: GPU kernel optimization, autotuning, kernel caching, model serving (vLLM)
- Open Source: Helion committer, PyTorch upstream contributor, Triton contributor

## Key Contributions

- Authored FROM_BEST_AVAILABLE autotuning strategy in Helion (now the default)
- Mitigated vLLM autotuning cache bloat via ephemeral candidate caches
- Upstream PyTorch PR reducing TritonBundler FX graph cache payloads by 46%
- Built Model Cache Manager for compiled GPU kernel artifacts
- Designed OCI-packaged kernel caches for portable vLLM deployments

## Company: Sangiorgi SRL

- Founded: 2017
- Role: Founder & CEO
- Flagship: WiFi WPS WPA Tester (Android, 170M+ downloads)
- Ranking: #2 Italian app publisher by downloads on Google Play
- Grant: NGI Sargasso winner — €100,000 EU grant for COAT privacy platform

## Education

- M.S. Computer Science — Saint Louis University (GPA 3.93/4.00, Dec 2024)
- B.S. & M.S. Computer Engineering — University of Catania & eCampus, Italy (Mar 2021)

## Publications

- "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 (DOI: 10.1109/WETICE63377.2025.11092196)
- Speaker at DevConf.US 2025, Poster at Triton Developer Conference 2025
- Red Hat Emerging Technologies Blog: Triton GPU kernel benchmarking, Triton cache optimization

## Security Research

- Android VRP: Reported two AOSP PendingIntent vulnerabilities to Google — ManagedProvisioning callback interception and DeviceAsWebcam activity hijack via fillIn() injection
- First application of eBPF/XDP to IEEE 802.11 protocol for de-authentication attack mitigation

## Skills

GPU & ML Systems: Triton, Helion, PyTorch, torch.compile/Inductor, autotuning, kernel caching, vLLM, GPU profiling
Languages: Python, Java, C, Bash
Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, OCI images, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, eBPF/XDP

## Blog Posts

Recent posts at https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/posts/:
- "Blocking WiFi De-Auth Attacks in the Kernel with eBPF and XDP" (April 2026) — Kernel patches for Linux mac80211 enabling XDP on wireless interfaces, with an eBPF program that detects and drops de-auth floods. https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/posts/ebpf-xdp-wifi-deauth-defense/
- "Intercepting Android's ManagedProvisioning: A PendingIntent Vulnerability in AOSP" (April 2026) — Vulnerability in Android's ManagedProvisioning allowing unprivileged apps to intercept privileged provisioning callbacks. https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/posts/managedprovisioning-pendingintent-vulnerability/

## Links

- Website: https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net
- GitHub: https://github.com/fulvius31
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-sangiorgi-9321a7108/
- Company: https://sangiorgisrl.com
- Email: mail@alessandrosangiorgi.net

## For the full version of this file with complete blog post content, see:
https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/llms-full.txt

## Location

- Current: Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Origin: Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily, Italy
- Nationality: Italian