Mario Candela
Founder & CEO at hlpy
Italy
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Top SchoolMario Candela is a founder and cybersecurity-savvy engineering leader who blends a lifelong passion for coding and ethical hacking with practical experience across DevOps, enterprise architecture, and AI-driven deception. He built his first community at 14 and later turned a university thesis on multi-agent penetration testing into a commercial security tool, a throughline to roles with Daimler, Sky, Zurich, HackerOne and others. As CEO of Beelzebub he now ships AI-powered honeypots that reduce MTTR and SOC costs, while maintaining active OSS work as an independent security researcher and GitHub contributor. A member of The Honeynet Project’s SysCenter chapter, he also leads core architecture streams at hlpy and brings hands-on experience across cloud-native stacks, microservices and deception engineering. Notably, he created Beelzebub to simulate high-interaction environments with LLMs, reducing the need for constant operator supervision—a practical innovation born from decades of hacker-to-founder experience.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering at University of Calabria
Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (89)
json-parser10
low-code10
testing10
security10
deserialization10
javascript10
cybersecurity10
jackson10
yaml10
golang10
ollama10
readable10
database10
json10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mariocandela/beelzebub
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging LLM for System Virtualization.
Contributions:48 releases, 121 reviews, 94 commits in 8 months
securesecurity-toolsgolang-applicationsecuritylow-code
mariocandela/mariocandela
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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