Vinicius Fortuna

Engineering lead of the team at Google's Jigsaw protecting people’s ability to participate in the global internet. We develop technology to prevent, mitigate and expose network censorship.

One of the creators of the Outline DIY VPN and the Knowledge Cards in Google's Web Search (patents).

Find my online identities and PGP on Keybase.

Internet Freedom

I post about my work at:

Mastodon: @ViniFortuna@mastodon.social
Twitter: @ViniFortuna

Public appearances and publications:

Advanced Outline Deployments for Resilience and Scale, VPN Village 2023
Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship, interview to MIT Tech Review.
How Outline Empowers Media in Exile, talk at Mixer Vilnius 2023
Shutting Down the Shutdown: Mainstreaming Proactive Civil Society Responses to Internet Disruptions, contributor to IRI's white paper, June 2023.
Advancing the Art of Censorship Data Analysis, paper at FOCI 2023
Remote Intrusion Detection System, OTF Summit 2023
Censorship Measurements for All, FIFAfrica 2022
Panel on Internet Shutdowns, Oslo Freedom Forum 2021
Building a Cross-Platform Circumvention Tool, PTIM 2021
Evolution of Online Censorship, FIFAfrica 2020
Outline Blocking Resistance, PTIM 2020

You can find my past work on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vfortuna.

Random Tools

Some tools I created in my spare time:

Academia

I have a Masters in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing of Unicamp (Campinas, Brazil):

Thesis Distâncias de Transposição entre Genomas (February 2005)
Masters final presentation (Powerpoint)
Technical Report IC-04-04: Sorting the Reverse Permutation by Prefix Transpositions (April 2004)

Citations: Vinicius Fortuna on Google Scholar

Theater

I've created the Sleep no More Wiki.

Programming Contests

I competed in the IOI 99 and the ACM ICPC world finals in 2000 and 2002. I then went twice to the ACM ICPC as a coach.

Programming Contests Site (old, in Portuguese)