Offensive security is where I come from: penetration testing, source code review, secure design assessment, infrastructure, and engagements led end to end. It is the ground the AI work is built on.

Most of my attention now goes to AI security: red teaming GenAI and LLM-integrated applications for prompt injection, indirect context manipulation, and model-level abuse. The same interest runs the other way too, using AI to make offensive work faster, which in practice means agentic orchestration and internal tooling.

Client work stays under NDA, so what I publish comes from the research I run alongside it. That is where the passkeys series and the DEF CON 34 talk came from.

Academic background in Computer Engineering and Security: BSc at UniRoma3, then PoliMi for the MSc, to specialize in cyber security.

Jazz guitar since I was nine, six of those years at Saint Louis College of Music. These days a hobby.

Here you can find an extract of my experience and education. The full CV is available upon request, please contact me first.

Selected Work

DEF CON 34, Main Stage
2026 (Las Vegas, US)
Demystifying Passkeys Under the Hood
Anvil Secure
2026
Burp Suite extension for attacking WebAuthn, MIT
2026

Record of Employment

Security Engineer
04/2025 - Present (Remote, US)
Security Engineer
01/2023 - 04/2025 (Milan, IT)
Security Engineer
04/2020 - 01/2023 (Milan, IT)

Certifications & Licenses

Professional Practice Examination
2021 (Milan, IT)

Main Education

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering
2018 - 2021 (Milan, IT)
Thesis: PageBuster: Combining Stealthy Generic Unpacking Tool with Static Analysis for Packed and Self-modifying Binaries
B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering
2015 - 2018 (Rome, IT)
Thesis: Authenticated (and Persistent) Data Structures Analysis and Design for Cloud Integrity. Code at zTehRyaN/authenticated-data-structures. Implementation contributed to Pipeline-Integrity, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), 2019.

Additional Education

Business management and strategy
2024 - 2025 (Milan, IT)
Academic Course, Jazz Guitar
2015 - 2018 (Rome, IT)
Pre-Academic Course, Jazz Guitar
2012 - 2015 (Rome, IT)

Volunteering

Member
2025 - Present
Member
2024 - Present
Member
2024 - Present