Gianluca Braga
Malware Team Leader at ZIMPERIUM
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGianluca Braga is a Malware Team Leader and seasoned security engineer with 11 years of experience in low-level Windows development, kernel-mode programming, and C/C++ systems engineering. Based in Rome, he leads malware research at Zimperium after years as a hands-on analyst and developer, blending deep reverse-engineering skills with practical software delivery across C/C++, C#, PHP, Go and assembly. An avid open-source contributor and long-time Arch Linux user, he’s made notable contributions to bettercap’s wlan.recon module—adding 5GHz support, deauth attacks and offline pcap recon—that underscore his network security expertise. Known for strong problem-solving, adaptability and a detail-oriented engineering mindset, he pairs academic credentials in computer engineering with interests that keep him sharp: coffee, softair, and continual learning.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea magistrale, Ingegneria Informatica, Laurea magistrale, Ingegneria Informatica at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'ITI "Galileo Galilei" di Latina
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
802-1110
go10
wifi-security10
802-11p10
security9
pcap9
btle7
bluetooth-low-energy7
bluetooth-le7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bettercap/bettercap
May 2019 - May 2019
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gianluca contributed significantly to the `wlan.recon` module, adding support for 802.11 and deauthentication attacks by implementing new code. Their work included implementing WiFi 5GHz support, enhancing the parsing of commands within the session management, and fixing concurrent access to the Stations map. They also extracted authentication and cipher information from beacon frames, and implemented offline recon capabilities using pcap files.
proxyipv4deauthentication-attackaircrack-ngmitm-attacks
Matrix86/Amazon-DynamoDB-Wrapper
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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