Francesco Marano
CEO Cyber Security Consultant at Unlock Security®
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Marano is a cyber security leader and CEO with 11 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, secure software development, and team leadership, based in Rome. He founded Unlock Security and advanced from ethical hacker to team leader roles at AlmavivA, driving automation, reporting improvements, and project estimation for security engagements. Francesco contributes to notable open-source security projects—such as WPScan and OpenCart—where he implemented core scanner features, fixed critical vulnerabilities, and improved database and query stability. He blends deep technical attack‑surface expertise with strategic oversight, routinely turning offensive techniques into practical defensive guidance for clients. As a former full‑stack developer and university tutor, he pairs academic rigor with real-world exploit knowledge and even organized a university hackathon to foster applied security skills.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaLiceo Scientifico Tecnologico "Giovanni Giorgi"Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English
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Github Skills (23)
scanner10
debug10
shopping-cart10
wordpress10
databases10
security10
ruby10
php10
opencart10
version-control10
querying10
database10
error-handling9
file-handling9
django-admin6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opencart/opencart
May 2015 - Jun 2015
A free shopping cart system. OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 22 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the OpenCart e-commerce platform. Their contributions involved identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, such as full path disclosure and arbitrary file access related to log files. They also refactored database queries for performance improvements, implemented error handling, and corrected model calls within the application. Additionally, the user removed functionality for route parameter fuzzing.
cartphp-basedecommercecommerceopencart
wpscanteam/wpscan
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Francesco contributed to the core functionality of the WPScan tool. Their work focused on implementing features related to database updates and versioning information. This included defining functions to retrieve the last database update date and integrating this information into the `--version` option. The commits also involved code cleanup, removing redundant elements and making minor improvements to the codebase.
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