Alejo Popovici
Senior Security Engineer at Anvil Secure
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejo Popovici is a Senior Security Engineer based in Milan with eight years of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive cybersecurity across consulting firms, startups, and boutique security shops. He has progressed from pentester and exploit writer roles to senior leadership at Anvil Secure, bringing deep expertise in penetration testing, security research, and exploit development. His career includes stints at global firms like Deloitte and Accenture as well as founding/CTO-level experience at Pucara Information Security, showing he can operate across technical, operational and strategic layers. Alejo’s background includes sustained independent research and fast-moving engagements in Argentina and Europe, reflecting a knack for adapting tools and techniques across diverse environments. Notably, he blends real-world red-team experience with security research that has supported product hardening and bespoke offensive tooling. Pragmatic and curious, he’s comfortable moving from low-level exploit work to shaping broader security programs.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sagrada Familia
Spanish, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (32)
apache-commons10
commons10
java10
lang10
apache9
apache-commons-lang9
rootkit8
enumeration7
penetration-testing7
pentesting7
kernel6
chat6
linux-kernel6
security6
seccomp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alex91ar/Diamorphine
Mar 2018 - May 2019
LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x/3.x/4.x
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
kernellkmsecurityseccomplinux
alex91ar/randomstringutils
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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