Alex Pyrgiotis

Alex Pyrgiotis is a senior Dangerzone engineer who maintains the project for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). He works on making it difficult for malware to curb Dangerzone’s defenses and easier for people at risk to use it. Previously, he was a staff software engineer designing and building fun, decentralized, and cloud-native applications, as well as a software engineer working on an open source cloud service for the Greek research and academic community. He believes in free press and free software, and occasionally likes to mix the two.

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