Andrea Valenza
Security Engineer at ZenHack CTF Team
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Valenza is a Security Engineer with 12 years of experience combining academic research and hands-on application security across industry and education. Based in Genoa, he currently secures platforms at Prima Assicurazioni while co-founding and actively leading ZenHack, a CTF team that has trained students and researchers in practical cybersecurity since 2017. His background includes postgraduate study and PhD-level work in computer science and information security, plus roles as an adjunct professor and senior security consultant, reflecting a blend of teaching, research and consulting. He cut his teeth developing automated Android analysis tools at CSecLab and began his career building web projects as a freelance developer, which gives him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on software risk. Known for translating academic depth into actionable security practices, he brings both tabletop rigor and CTF-honed offense skills to defensive engineering.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dottorato di ricerca, Computer Science and System Engineering, Dottorato di ricerca, Computer Science and System Engineering at Università degli Studi di Genova
Italian, English
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Github Skills (95)
web-application-firewall10
terraform10
http-response10
graph10
adversarial-machine-learning10
web-security10
terraform-cloud9
ssrf9
hashicorp9
web-application9
nrwl9
security9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
hcl9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AvalZ/WAF-A-MoLE
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
A guided mutation-based fuzzer for ML-based Web Application Firewalls
Contributions:15 reviews, 44 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 9 months
mutationadversarial-machine-learningweb-securitysecurityweb-application
AvalZ/avalz.github.io
Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
A Jekyll-based GitHub-hosted Blog
Contributions:6 PRs, 69 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
hostedjekylljekyll-themejekyll-based
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