Marco Lancini
Security at Lakera
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarco Lancini is a seasoned security leader with 12 years of experience building cloud, infrastructure, and application security programs for high‑growth SaaS and enterprise organizations. Currently Director of Security at Lakera and founder of SecurityBite, he blends hands‑on engineering with strategic leadership, having led Infrastructure Security and proactive security transformations at GitLab and Thought Machine. Marco has deep cloud-native expertise—instrumenting Falco, OSQuery, Cartography, and multi-cloud inventories—and has driven ransomware protection and compliance initiatives that influenced CTO‑level decisions. He is an active open‑source contributor to projects like Kritis (deploy‑time policy enforcement for Kubernetes) and Cartography, with practical tooling experience from an interactive network scanner to an iOS security testing framework. Known for hiring, mentoring, and formalising interview/onboarding processes, he scales teams and institutionalises security practices across organisations. Based in London with an MSc from Politecnico di Milano, he pairs offensive security roots with pragmatic engineering to make security both measurable and operational.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico, High School Diploma Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico at Istituto Salesiano Opere Sociali Don Bosco (”E.Breda”)Master of Science Engineering of Computing Systems, Master of Science Engineering of Computing Systems at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian
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Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
docker10
ios10
nmap10
ios-security10
cloud-computing10
python10
frida10
dockers10
gcp10
security10
neo4j10
network-scan10
go10
keychain10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WithSecureLabs/needle
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
The iOS Security Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:13 releases, 426 commits, 137 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marco contributed to the development of the iOS Security Testing Framework, "needle." Their commits focused on enhancing the framework's capabilities, with a focus on iOS device testing and security analysis. The commits included updates to the core framework and utility files, enhancements to device and keychain interaction, and the porting of features to support iOS 9. The user also added improvements to modules related to binary analysis and certificate pinning bypass techniques.
dynamic-analysistesting-frameworkfridasecuritysecurity-testing
cartography-cncf/cartography
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer & Backend Developer
Cloud Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 31 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on integrating AWS services, specifically Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), into the cartography tool. They implemented EKS intel modules, created the necessary schema, and added tests to validate the integration. Further contributions involved adding internet exposure and audit logging features to EKS clusters. They also added GCP DNS ingestion and AWS Autodiscovery. In addition, the user contributed to handle edge cases and improve the reliability of data ingestion.
neo4j-databasegcppythonathenalyft
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