Emanuele Faranda
Author and maintainer of pcapdroid. GitHub handle emanuele-f, based in Italy, 101 public
repositories and 511 followers on 2026-08-06; account created 2013. His profile describes him as an
“Open source developer, building tools for network traffic analysis” with a CS degree from the
University of Pisa.
More biography than this spoke usually gets from a maintainer — trimstray and 7ritn are handles with no stated name at all. The self-description is narrower than the app: he does not present as a security developer but as someone who builds traffic analysis tools, and PCAPdroid reads that way. It is a measurement instrument that grew a firewall, not a security product that added visibility.
PCAPdroid embeds nDPI, ntop’s deep-packet-inspection library. Whether he has worked on nDPI or with ntop is not evidenced here; the dependency is a fact and the affiliation is not asserted.