Francesco Minna
Cyber Security Engineer at Thales
Gorgonzola, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Minna is a Cyber Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience, currently working at Thales on avionics and defense systems and pursuing a PhD in Cloud Security at VU Amsterdam. His background spans industrial and enterprise network security, having implemented ML-driven intrusion detection for OT networks using HDBSCAN during a Forescout internship and prototyped enterprise lab defenses with pfSense. Francesco blends rigorous academic research with practical engineering—comfortable with Python, scikit-learn, Docker, and MITRE ATT&CK—and has trained in international cyber programs across Europe. He brings domain expertise in OT/IT convergence and anomaly detection for critical infrastructure, with a particular knack for turning research prototypes into operational tooling.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
EIT Digital Master School - Double degree Cyber Security, EIT Digital Master School - Double degree Cyber Security at Università di TrentoInternational Cyber Security Summer School (ICSSS) Cyber Security, International Cyber Security Summer School (ICSSS) Cyber Security at Security Delta (HSD)Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Security at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)EIT Digital Master school - Double degree Cyber Security, EIT Digital Master school - Double degree Cyber Security at University of Rennes 1 (France)Master - Summer School Integrating Personalized Mobility Solutions for Digital Cities , Master - Summer School Integrating Personalized Mobility Solutions for Digital Cities at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
testbed8
aws6
architecture6
sast5
security5
provisioning5
kubernetes4
azure-security4
terraform4
owasp3
compliance3
devsecops3
foundation3
aws-security3
infrastructure3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
assuremoss/Kubernetes-testbed
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Kubernetes playground testbed that can be used for cloud experiments.
Contributions:4 reviews, 29 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
kubernetestestbedplaygroundaws
fminna/mycharts
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
A collection of Helm Charts and GitHub Actions to analyze them.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 327 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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