TIZIANO FIRPO

Developer - Cyber-Security Enthusiast

CURRICULUM

EDUCATION


  • University of Genoa Genoa, Italy / Sep '19 - Dec '21

    Master Degree in Computer Science
    Curriculum: "Software Security & Engineering - Software Security"
    Thesis: "Exteding Ghidra"
    Honors: cum laude


  • University of Genoa Genoa, Italy / Oct '16 - Jul '19

    Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
    Thesis: "Breaking CAPTCHA"
    Honors: cum laude


  • ITIS Ferraris-PancaldoSavona, Italy / Sep '11 - Jul '16
    High School in Computer Science
    Thesis: "Linux: Kernel"

WORK EXPERIENCES


  • AlgowattGenoa, Italy / Sep '21 - Present
    Developer

    Leader company in the development of solutions and systems for the energy supply chain, from production to transmission, to distribution and sales.


  • Olimpiadi Italiane di CybersecurityRemote / May '21
    Instructor

    OliCyber.IT is a cybersecurity training and competition program entirely dedicated to secondary school students.

    My main role was to teach to 20 students the basics of reverse engineering and binary exploitation. I was also charged to prepare different challenges about teaching topics.


  • Cluster ReplyGenoa, Italy / Sep '19 - Sep '21
    Consultant/Developer

    Cluster Reply is a global award winning Microsoft Gold certified partner.
    In 2020 Cluster Reply won the "2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award" for Italy.

    During this experience I was charged of developing and maintaining one of the e-commerce of Costa Crociere, creating from scratches web applications for different customers and building integration solutions between Dynamics CRM and customer's services.


  • SoftimaxAlbenga(SV), Italy / Jul '14 - Aug '14
    Intern

    Charged of updating and maintaining websites

OTHER EXPERIENCES


  • Cyber-Security Contests Online / '18 - Present
    Official member of the CTF ZenHack Team located at University of Genoa

  • HITB CTF Pro Finals 2021Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / 24-25 Nov '21
    HITB CTF Pro Finals is an annual cyber security competition and conference on information security, it is followed by a selection of the top ranked teams according to the results of playing A&D CTFs in recent years.
    HITB CTF Pro Finals

  • CSET Cyber Game 2021Genoa / Sep 2021
    CTF-like event organized by Leonardo where each team had to defend a given environment from cyber security threats. The goal was to report the vulnerabilities found within the provided services, including how we managed to fix them and any eventual detection of cyber threats.

  • Reply Cyber Security Challenge - Replyers Edition 2020Online / 9-10 Oct 2020
    Our team, composed of four people, ranked #1 out of 60.
    Reply Cyber Security Challenge is a non-stop 24h online contest organized by Reply.
    Our team was awarded with 4 XMG gaming laptop.
    Reply CTF

  • Reply Cyber Security Challenge - Replyers Edition 2019Online / 11-12 Oct 2019
    Our team, composed of four people, ranked #1 out of 70.
    Reply Cyber Security Challenge is a non-stop 24h online contest organized by Reply.
    Our team was awarded with 4 MSI gaming laptop.
    Reply CTF

  • RuCTF 2019Yekaterinburg, Russia / 26-29 Apr '19
    RuCTF is an annual open intercollegiate cyber security competition and conference on information security, it is followed by a qualification phase that takes place remotely as a Jeopardy CTF.
    RuCTF

  • Boeing-UNIGE CTF, 2nd editionGenoa, Italy / 20 Dec '18
    Ranked #4 out of 75.
    Boeing CTF was a competition in cyber security organized by the University of Genoa and financed by the company Boeing. The competition consisted of Jeopardy CTF with challenges on cryptography, binary reverse engineering, web and network analysis.
    Boeing-UNIGE Scholarship Project 2018

  • Data Science Summer School - "Genova a City of Data" Genoa, Italy / 19-21 Sep '18
    Organized by the courses of study of computer science, SCIENZE MFN, University of Genoa

  • CyberChallenge.ITGenoa/Rome, Italy / Feb '18 - Jun '18
    University of Genoa' Team member of the national Cyber Security contest.
    Theoretical lessons and pratical CTF competitions hosted by CSecLab (part of the Cyber Security National Laboratory).
    Winner of the local CTF and member of the genoese team in the national final held in Rome.

HOBBIES


  • Photograph

  • Food & Cooking

  • Travel

  • Gym