Daniele Ricci
Head Of Strategic Consulting
Arese, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolDaniele Ricci is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with 15 years of experience designing and operating enterprise-grade security architectures and managed detection & response services across finance, e-commerce, telecom and other sectors. Now Head of Strategic Consulting at RAD Cyber Security, he combines hands-on expertise in SIEM, DLP, IAM, fraud monitoring and threat hunting with ISO27001-certified incident response and SOC playbook design. Equally comfortable in pre-sales and technical delivery, he has built some of Italy’s most critical SIEM deployments and led MDR/XDR teams while training both customer experts and university audiences. A former mobile and full‑stack contributor to notable open-source projects like the Kontalk Android client and Immich, he blends pragmatic software development skills with strategic security vision. Known for emotional intelligence and diplomacy, he thrives under pressure and often frames technical problems through a risk-and-context lens that uncovers non-obvious detection opportunities.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanAdvanced Course Attendee English Language and Literature General, Advanced Course Attendee English Language and Literature General at Islington Centre for English
Italian, English
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Github Skills (40)
mobile-development10
flutter-apps10
emoji10
typescript10
self-hosting10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
photo-gallery10
android10
typescript-types10
android-ui10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kontalk/androidclient
May 2011 - Oct 2021
Kontalk official Android client
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:60 releases, 4713 commits, 63 PRs in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniele Ricci primarily contributed to the Kontalk official Android client by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the user interface and message handling. His work included modifying the contact information screen, addressing issues with media and text message handling, and incorporating features like reply and group chat functionality. Additionally, he upgraded the Smack library to version 4.3.3 and addressed code style issues within the project.
xmppandroidencryptedkotlinandroid-client
rockerhieu/emojicon
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
A library to show emoji in TextView, EditText (like WhatsApp) for Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:14 commits, 27 comments, 2 issues in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniele primarily contributed to the Android library for displaying emojis, specifically focusing on UI and feature enhancements. They implemented configurable start indices and lengths for emoji application within text views. Further contributions included adding functionality for recently used emoji tabs, along with enhancements in internal management like synchronization within the recent emojis feature. The user also improved code related to handling emoji spans and attribute names, and added a hashCode method to the Emojicon class.
emojiwhatsappandroidedittexttextview
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