Paolo Monti
Staff CPU Design Engineer at Arm
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPaolo Monti is a Staff CPU Design Engineer at Arm with nine years of experience optimizing microarchitectures, particularly memory subsystems, address translation caches, and prefetchers for Cortex‑A designs. He combines a double degree in Embedded Systems from Politecnico di Torino and EURECOM with hands‑on verification and SystemVerilog testbench development early in his career. Paolo blends hardware design depth with system security instincts—evidenced by contributions to the radare2 reverse‑engineering framework where he implemented signing scripts and assembler fixes. Known for pragmatic optimization techniques, he has progressed through successive engineering roles at Arm from intern to staff, consistently delivering performance and security improvements. Based in Nice, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, practical verification skills, and open‑source security contributions to low‑level CPU design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Double Degree Program Smart Objects, Double Degree Program Smart Objects at EURECOMMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Embedded Systems, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Embedded Systems at Politecnico di Torino
Github Skills (11)
c1710
radare210
assembly10
reverse-engineering10
c1110
binarydiff10
assembler10
x8610
security10
command-line9
macos8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
May 2018 - Sep 2018
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:14 commits, 23 PRs, 39 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the radare2 reverse engineering framework. Their contributions include creating a signing script and integrating it into the build process, demonstrating an understanding of code signing practices on macOS. They also implemented a C byte array dumping function for rax2, improved the assembler logic for x86, and fixed several assembly related issues.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
PaoloMonti42/salt
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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