Ludovico Cavedon
R&D Engineer Software at VMware
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolLudovico Cavedon is an R&D software engineer with 26 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining high-performance network and security systems, currently at VMware after recent acquisitions. He has deep expertise in network traffic analysis, distributed data processing, embedded wireless systems, kernel driver development, VoIP/P2P and large-scale intrusion detection from roles at Lastline, Google and research at UCSB. A hands-on team lead, he builds developer, QA, and operations infrastructure while also contributing to security research and competing in DefCon CTFs, reflecting a practical yet adversarial mindset. His background blends academic security training (MS, UC Santa Barbara) with applied engineering across startups and enterprise acquisitions, and he thrives on tackling new, challenging problems at the intersection of networking and security.
26 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnaLaurea Specialistica (MS) Computer Engineering, Laurea Specialistica (MS) Computer Engineering at Università di PisaLiceo Scientifico Statale "Paolo Lioy", VicenzaMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science - Security, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science - Security at UC Santa BarbaraErasmus student Computer Science, Erasmus student Computer Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover
Italian, English
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Github Skills (167)
security10
traffic10
ndpi10
middleware10
dpi10
cybersecurity10
netflow10
infer10
traffic-analysis10
ids10
router10
packet10
apt10
network10
network-traffic10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cavedon/aptly
Aug 2017 - Apr 2023
aptly - Debian repository management tool
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
linuxaptlyrepository-managementmanagement-tooldebian
adamdoupe/enemy-of-the-state
Jul 2009 - Nov 2011
This novel black-box web vulnerability scanner attempts to infer the state machine of the web application.
Contributions:238 commits in 2 years 4 months
scannersecurity-toolsinferboxsecurity
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