Resume
Silvia Puglisi
Privacy Engineer · Security Researcher · Open‑Source Contributor
SUMMARY
Computer Engineer and Privacy Researcher with 15+ years of experience across academia, open-source infrastructure, and the technology industry. Specializes in privacy-preserving systems, anonymity networks, and secure communication infrastructure. Lead contributor to the Tor Project and university lecturer in information security and data privacy.
EXPERIENCE
Network Health Team Lead & Metrics Data Architect
The Tor Project — 2016 – Present
- Lead engineering for privacy‑preserving measurement and network
health analysis of the Tor network. - Architect and maintain the Tor Metrics ecosystem, enabling transparency, research, and operational monitoring of the global Tor network.
- Develop infrastructure and tooling to analyze network performance
while preserving user anonymity. - Collaborate with researchers and open‑source contributors to improve
network reliability, monitoring, and data transparency. - Ford Foundation / Media Democracy Fund Tech Exchange Fellow.
On‑Call Lecturer – Information Security & Data Privacy
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya — 2025 – Present
Dept. of Telecommunication Engineering and Applied Mathematics
- Deliver MSc‑level lectures on secure systems, privacy engineering,
and applied cryptography. - Provide teaching support and guest lectures in postgraduate
programs.
Adjunct Professor – Information Security
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) — 2020 – 2023
- Designed and taught graduate coursework in cybersecurity and privacy
engineering. - Supervised MSc student projects and contributed to curriculum
development.
Research Engineer & Ph.D. Candidate
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya — 2012 – 2017
Dept. of Telecommunication Engineering and Applied Mathematics
- Conducted research on online user profiling, anonymity risks, and
privacy‑enhancing technologies. - Developed analytical models for studying web tracking and privacy
leakage. - Completed Ph.D. research on analysis and protection of online
private data.
Technical Architect
Fab Lab Barcelona (IAAC) — 2015 – 2016
https://fablabbcn.org
- Designed and implemented digital fabrication infrastructure within
the global Fab Lab network. - Contributed to open digital manufacturing systems and collaborative
technology initiatives.
Software Engineer
Ztory — 2014 – 2015
- Developed Ruby on Rails applications for a digital publishing
platform.
3scale — 2013 – 2014
- Contributed to development of scalable API management
infrastructure.
Enterprise Engineer
Google — Dublin — 2011 – 2012
- Supported enterprise deployment and adoption of Google Apps (now
Google Workspace) across global organizations.
Corporate Operations Engineer
Google — Dublin — 2009 – 2011
- Managed infrastructure deployment and operational support for Google
corporate systems across EMEA regions.
Field Engineer
Google — Milan — 2007 – 2009
- Led cross‑regional IT deployments and supported global office
launches and infrastructure rollout.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Analysis, Modelling and Protection of Online Private Data.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017 - On the Anonymity Risk of Time‑Varying User Profiles. Entropy, 2017
- On Web User Tracking of Browsing Patterns for Personalised
Advertising. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and
Distributed Systems, 2017 - MobilitApp: Analysing Mobility Data of Citizens in the Metropolitan
Area of Barcelona. LNICST, 2016 - On Web User Tracking: How Third‑Party HTTP Requests Track Users’
Browsing Patterns. Med‑Hoc‑Net, 2016 - RESTful Rails Development: Building Open Applications and Services.
O’Reilly Media, 2015 - You Never Surf Alone: Ubiquitous Tracking of Users’ Browsing Habits.
DPM, 2015 - On Content‑Based Recommendation and User Privacy in Social‑Tagging
Systems. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2015 - Potential Mass Surveillance and Privacy Violations in
Proximity‑Based Social Applications. IEEE TrustCom, 2015
Full publication list: https://sifr.tech/publications
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Telematics Engineering (Cum Laude) Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya — 2017 Dissertation: Analysis, Modelling and Protection of
Online Private Data
M.Sc. in Management of Information Systems Trinity College Dublin — 2012
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Politecnico di Milano — 2007
SKILLS
Privacy & Security Engineering Privacy‑preserving systems · anonymity
networks · secure communications
Distributed Systems & Infrastructure Network measurement · scalable
services · infrastructure architecture
Open‑Source Leadership Project stewardship · community collaboration ·
technical coordination
Research & Communication Academic research · scientific publications ·
technical speaking
TALKS
Frequent speaker at privacy, security, and open‑source conferences. Full
list of talks: https://www.sifr.tech/talks