Summary
Jacopo Corbetta is a Senior Product Security Engineer based in the Greater Milan area with 17 years of experience building pragmatic, defense-in-depth security for complex products. Currently at Qualcomm, he blends hands-on low-level expertise—binary analysis, fuzzing, and network tricks—with program-level threat modeling to make systems behave as intended. His background includes security research at Philips and graduate work at UCSB’s Computer Security Lab, where he contributed to projects spanning web, Android, binary compartmentalization and guided fuzzing, and took part in the Shellphish team in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. Comfortable moving between research and product work, he designs monitoring and defensive measures that scale across organizations. Colleagues rely on his curiosity-driven approach and willingness to try unconventional techniques to find and fix subtle flaws. He holds advanced degrees from UCSB and Italian institutions, pairing academic rigor with long-term industrial impact.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma di Licenza, Computer Engineering, Diploma di Licenza, Computer Engineering at Scuola Superiore 'Sant' Anna' di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor and Master, Computer Engineering, Bachelor and Master, Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
English, Italian