Riccardo Ancarani
Principal Security Consultant at Reversec
London, England, Italy
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Top SchoolRiccardo Ancarani is a Principal Security Consultant with nine years of hands-on experience in offensive security, attack detection and purple team operations, currently based in London and originally from Italy. He has held senior leadership roles at WithSecure—leading UK attack detection and global purple team services—and recently moved to Reversec, reflecting rapid progression within top-tier consultancy teams. Riccardo holds an unusually broad and advanced set of certifications (OSEP, OSCP, eCPTX, CREST CRT and many more), signaling deep red-team, adversary emulation and web application testing expertise. His background spans penetration testing, EDR deployment and mentoring, and he has experience migrating through major industry acquisitions, giving him practical insight into integrating security across evolving organizations. Known for blending technical rigor with leadership, he routinely translates complex attack techniques into pragmatic detection and resilience improvements.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale (180 ECTS) di primo livello (Classe L-31), Scienze informatiche, 103/110, Laurea triennale (180 ECTS) di primo livello (Classe L-31), Scienze informatiche, 103/110 at Università degli Studi di FirenzeMatematica e informatica, 100/100, Matematica e informatica, 100/100 at ITIS Alessandro Volta
Italian, English
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Github contributions (5)
RiccardoAncarani/python_recommender_system
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
RiccardoAncarani/play-scrape
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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