Summary
Massimiliano P is an executive security engineer and inventor with 26 years of experience leading PKI, cryptography and authentication efforts across industry and academia. Currently Executive Director & Principal Engineer for PKIs at Wells Fargo and founder of OpenCA Labs, he has driven standards and protocol design for DOCSIS 4.0, CBRS-A and hybrid crypto migrations while authoring patents and academic work from a PhD in usable security. He combines hands-on C/C++ and scripting development with deep standards leadership—spearheading working groups, proofs-of-concept and large-scale crypto migrations for broadband and finance. Recently he has focused on pragmatic strategies for post-quantum readiness spanning technical, organizational and policy dimensions, and he actively promotes community-driven tooling and education through OpenCA Labs. Not obvious at first glance: his career blends formal research roles (NYU, Dartmouth) with product-focused security deployments, giving him rare credibility across research, standards and operational engineering.
26 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD Computer Science, Visiting PhD Computer Science at Dartmouth College
BC+M.s. IT Engineering, BC+M.s. IT Engineering at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Usable Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Usable Security at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, Spanish