Madison Ficorilli
Senior Manager, Advisory Database Curation
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadison Ficorilli is a security-focused engineering manager with six years of experience leading vulnerability curation and incident response at GitHub, where she runs the Advisory Database team that powers Dependabot and operates one of the most active CVE Naming Authorities. She combines hands-on incident leadership—having coordinated responses to high-profile incidents like Log4Shell—with program-level work in CVE and OpenSSF community groups to improve ecosystem-wide vulnerability processes. A Penn State and Carnegie Mellon graduate, she previously led vulnerability coordination at CERT/SEI and has taught applied threat detection as an adjunct professor. Known for turning complex disclosure and remediation challenges into scalable, auditable workflows, she blends technical rigor with policy-savvy collaboration across security, engineering, and legal stakeholders.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Security and Risk Analysis - Information and Cyber Security Option, Senior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Security and Risk Analysis - Information and Cyber Security Option, Senior at Pennsylvania State University-University ParkMaster’s Degree, Information Security Policy and Management, Master’s Degree, Information Security Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III College
English, Arabic
Github Skills (43)
vulnerability10
security10
security-vulnerability10
vulnerabilities10
cve10
sca10
database10
android-ndk8
pypi8
sdk8
openssf8
ecosystem7
information-gathering7
pjsip7
dotnet7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
taladrane/taladrane.github.io
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
taladrane/taladrane
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
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Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 6 months
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