Marco Cardacci
Senior Pentest Engineer at Target
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Cardacci is a Senior Pentest Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, currently testing IoT, POS, web, API, camera, and network systems at Target. He blends software engineering and red team expertise to uncover novel vulnerabilities—recently discovering issues in Zebra devices and other IoT hardware—and mentors junior engineers in technical assessments and career growth. His background spans covert entry, social engineering, hardware reverse engineering, and threat modeling, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on adversary techniques and system defenses. Previously he led client-facing security work at RedTeam Security and built security tooling and architecture reviews as a Security Software Engineer at Ticketech. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs a criminology education with pragmatic technical skills to think like an attacker while driving measurable improvements in enterprise security posture.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Criminology, Bachelor of Science, Criminology at Florida State University
Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (4)
cybersecurity2
cyber-threat-intelligence2
threat-intelligence2
security2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mcardacci/twitter_CTI
Jul 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
cybercyber-threat-intelligencesecuritycybersecuritythreat
mcardacci/motion_detection_video_capture
Apr 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 4 months
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