Marco Cieno

Design and development of services and infrastructure to fulfill the needs of Positec Tool Corporation.

Maintenance and improvement of the server infrastructure hosting the enterprise applications.
Development of tools to improve source code management and deployments.
Analysis and monitoring of infrastructure and application security problems.

Educational support for high school and university students with specific learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia).
Areas of expertise: mathematics, physics and informatics.

Hack-A-Sat is a cybersecurity competition focused on improving space systems security.
The 4th edition took place on an on-orbit 3U CubeSat satellite, named Moonlighter, of which teams were encharged to exploit vulnerabilities and take over control.
I played as member of team mhackeroni and won the first prize.

DEFCON is the world's largest and most notable hacker convention, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As a member of team mhackeroni, I participated in its most prestigious cybersecurity wargame: DEFCON CTF finals.

SPRITZ_PLAYGROUND is an extracurricular course on cybersecurity held by the Security and Privacy Research Group at University of Padova.
As a member of the CTF team, I developed wargames and explained cryptography basics and hacking techniques to the attendees.

CyberChallenge.IT is a training program in cybersecurity for undergraduate students.
As a member of the 4–persons delegation representing University of Padova, I competed and won the final wargame against other italian universities.

Graduated (cum laude) with a thesis on clique-based branching rules for mixed-integer linear programs.
Deepened various computer science topics, among which advanced algorithm design, big data computing, machine learning, mathematical optimization and parallel computing.

Graduated (109/110) with a thesis on affinity propagation clustering for unsupervised machine learning.