https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/tags/entrepreneurship/Recent content in Entrepreneurship on Alessandro Sangiorgi — GPU Performance EngineerHugoenWed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/posts/featured-by-google-sangiorgi-srl/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://contact.alessandrosangiorgi.net/posts/featured-by-google-sangiorgi-srl/<p>Google just published a <a href="https://www.google.com/ads/publisher/stories/sangiorgi_srl/">Publisher Success Story about Sangiorgi SRL</a> — the company I founded and still run from Sicily while working full-time at Red Hat. It&rsquo;s a strange and wonderful thing to see your own origin story written up by the platform that made it possible. Here&rsquo;s the longer version, in my own words.</p> <h2 id="it-started-as-a-way-to-learn">It started as a way to learn</h2> <p>While I was studying computer engineering in Catania, I built <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tester.wpswpatester">WiFi WPS WPA Tester</a> as a side project. I wanted to understand how WPS — the &ldquo;press a button to connect&rdquo; feature on home routers — actually worked, and how badly it could fail. The app let people check whether their own Wi-Fi network was exposed to the well-known WPS vulnerabilities of the time.</p>