Summary
Amedeo Baragiola is a Senior Security Researcher with 13 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, threat modeling, penetration testing, and secure architecture reviews, currently protecting Oracle’s product and cloud portfolios. He has a strong academic foundation with dual MSc degrees from Politecnico di Milano and University of Illinois Chicago and blends deep research experience—distributed simulators and FPGA homomorphic encryption prototypes—with practical vulnerability discovery, including multiple high-severity CVEs in proprietary code. At Oracle he pairs code review rigor with tool development to automate vulnerability detection and advises cross-functional teams on risk and remediation. His background spans embedded systems, distributed systems, and software engineering, and he has a track record of reversing embedded backdoors and applying in-memory patches. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic offensive security expertise and an interest in translating research insights into scalable defensive tooling.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
MSc Computer Science, Computer Science, MSc Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Italian