Moreno Ambrosin
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Musile di Piave, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolMoreno Ambrosin is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience blending research-grade cryptography and production backend engineering, currently based in Musile di Piave, Italy and working at Google. His background includes a PhD and postdoctoral work from Università degli Studi di Padova and multi-year research roles at Intel Labs, giving him deep expertise in applied security and low-level systems. At Google he has progressed from software engineer to senior roles, applying rigorous research instincts to large-scale product codebases. Moreno is an active open-source contributor—his work on the widely used Tink crypto library added alternative AES-GCM EVP_CIPHER implementations to improve compatibility and safety when modern EVP_AEAD APIs aren’t available. He combines a researcher’s attention to subtle implementation details with a pragmatist’s focus on tests and utilities that make cryptographic code safer in the wild. Colleagues would describe him as a methodical engineer who turns cryptographic theory into reliable, production-ready implementations.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Università degli Studi di Padova
English
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Github Skills (11)
c-language10
aes-gcm10
cprogramming-language10
openssl10
cryptography10
security9
it-security9
bouncy-castle6
pgp6
digital-signature6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tink-crypto/tink
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform, open source library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 409 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Moreno's contributions focused on enhancing the security of the Tink crypto library by adding alternative EVP_CIPHER code for AES-GCM when the EVP_AEAD APIs were unavailable. Their work involved modifying C++ files related to AES-GCM, including subtle implementations and test files. They made code modifications in several files related to the project and included the addition of utility functions.
securecryptographycppcross-languagemulti-language
tink-crypto/tink-cc
Apr 2023 - Mar 2026
C++ implementation of Tink
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
cppcryptocryptographysecurity
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