Giuseppe Petracca
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Petracca is a Lead Detection and Response Security Engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable security, detection, and incident response systems for high-growth tech companies in San Francisco. He combines a Ph.D. research background in mobile and cloud security with hands-on leadership at Lyft, Rippling, and AngelList to design institutional processes, automation layers, and AI-driven triage that measurably reduce operational overhead. Giuseppe excels at translating research-grade rigor into production-grade tooling—authoring runbooks, governance models, and automated escalation that saved engineering hours and tightened audit readiness. He’s led cross-functional investigations that produced litigation-grade evidence and built prevention controls that cut risky internal access significantly, showing a pragmatic balance of privacy, legal, and engineering constraints. Known for mentoring engineers and formalizing detection lifecycles, he brings both deep systems expertise and an appetite for harnessing LLMs responsibly to scale response capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State UniversityIstituto Tecnico Commerciale "Gaetano Salvemini"Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 108/110, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 108/110 at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
mechanism9
integrity7
device-management6
software-update6
authorization6
security5
privacy4
selinux3
graph1
inject1
networkx1
android1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
giuseppe-sec-eng/AWare
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Proof-of-Concept Authorization Mechanism for Privacy-Sensitive Sensors Use in Smartphones.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 1 day
mechanismauthorizationsensorsprivacydevice-management
g-petracca/AuDroid
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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