I’m Alessandro Mingione, a designer from Rome, Italy, living in Oakland, California. For the past five years I’ve been designing security and privacy software. I started at Palantir, where I led Design for the Foundry Security product area and collaborated with the Privacy and Civil Liberties team. I then briefly contracted for Tonic, a startup that combines synthetic data and AI to create fake datasets that behave like the real deal. I’m now at Tailscale, where we are creating tiny decentralized internets that — through cryptography and the powerful dynamics of small social groups — are easier to operate, safer, and more human.