Pietro Costanzi Fantini

I am a developer with a strong passion for motorsport, security and IT innovations. My work focuses on crafting secure, high-performance user interfaces that are both functional and user-friendly. I am deeply involved in the intersection of development and security, designing and building solutions that adhere to industry standards.

I am a Computer Science Master's student specializing in big data management, cybersecurity, and distributed systems. Currently, I am completing my Master's thesis through an internship at Toyota Racing, where I apply my academic focus to real-world engineering challenges. My technical foundation is rooted in a Computer Engineering Bachelor's degree, giving me a deep understanding of algorithms, embedded systems, and network infrastructures. In practice, I build robust data pipelines and scalable applications using modern technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Docker. Beyond my core studies, I am actively exploring the development of biometric systems and the underlying architecture of the Bitcoin blockchain.

In the past, I’ve had the opportunity to develop software in various settings, working on projects that tackle different cybersecurity challenges. I’ve also spent time crafting interactive playgrounds and security-focused applications that offer hands-on learning experiences for those wanting to dive into web application security.

In my spare time, I enjoy working out, hiking and volunteering at my local Red Cross center.

Work

Toyota Racing (Software Engineer Intern)

I am working on the development of a telemetry system to manage large quantaties of live data streams for motorsport applications, utilizing technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Java and AWS. This experience allowed me to gain hands-on experience in software development and cloud computing within the context of motorsport.

Fibernet (Software Developer Intern)

I worked on developing a temperature measurement system to monitor the behavior of fiber optic cables at various temperatures, along with writing functional and technical documentation for the application system

Education

Sapienza University of Rome (Master's degree)

I'm currently studying for my master's degree in Computer Science, with my main focus being on cybersecurity, biometric systems and the development of distributed systems.

Sapienza University of Rome (Bachelor's degree)

I graduated in Computer Engineering where I was able to takle topics ranging from Algorithms and Data Structures, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Network Infrastructures and Formal Mathematical Methods.

Enrico Fermi Technical High School

During high school, I explored a wide range of IT fields and participated in numerous hackathons (IT competitions). Additionally, I completed an internship at Fibernet, a fiber-cable development company, where I gained hands-on experience in IT infrastructure.

Projects

Data Science

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Adaptive Cache Occupancy Fingerprinting

This project investigates an adaptive cache-based website fingerprinting attack that integrates passive device fingerprinting to select environment-specific classification models, significantly improving accuracy over generic approaches across CPUs, browsers, and operating systems.

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AES vs SHA3 using GPU acceleration

A concise overview of AES and SHA‑3 focusing on algorithm structure, parallelizable modes, and high‑performance implementations using AES‑NI on CPUs and CUDA techniques on GPUs, including ECB/CTR suitability, key schedule constraints, and T‑table and bitsliced designs for throughput.

Cloud Computing

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Kubernetes Orchestration on AWS with HPA

A self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS (kubeadm, containerd, Flannel) runs a scalable web app to evaluate Horizontal Pod Autoscaler behavior under varying traffic using Apache JMeter across a 1-master/4-worker architecture on t2.medium instances.

Biometric Systems

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Biometric Fingerprint Recognition System

A comparative study of classical fingerprint enhancement techniques—segmentation, orientation and frequency estimation, and filtering—integrated into a full recognition pipeline to quantify their impact on minutiae extraction and identification reliability on FVC2002 datasets using a proposed single-attempt confidence metric (SRR).

Web Development

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Along with a couple of collegues at my University, we made an online version of the popular game of Risk. It features a backend server made with Python to keep track of all the matches and statistics for each player, along with an intutive frontend desing to guarantee a fluid and intutive gaming experience.

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With a team of collegues at my University, we developped an online utility portal with the use of the official NBA API where anyone can keep track of all upcoming and past matches of their favorite NBA team, along with interesting statistics and other features.

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CyberPlayground

For my Bachelor's degree I made a web-based playground designed to simulate and demonstrate various common web application security vulnerabilities. It provides an interactive environment where users can explore real-world security issues such as SQL Injection (SQLi), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

Software Engineering

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File system FAT

This is my approach on making a fully fledged FAT system in C with the added feature of being persistant, meaning it can be used on any PC while keeping track of all the data it has previously saved. It includes useful features such as a write-on-file function, a read-from-file, a make-directory command and others.