Summary
Riccardo Cestaro is an Android engineer with 11 years of experience who combines deep mobile development expertise with advanced cybersecurity research. He holds an M.Sc. in Cybersecurity (110 cum laude) from Università degli Studi di Padova and has taught and researched mobile and automotive security, including reverse engineering firmware and uncovering critical vulnerabilities in e-scooter systems. As a freelance and company Android engineer he delivers production apps using Kotlin/Java, Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, multiplatform Compose, Coroutines/RxJava, and DI frameworks, while also working with Android TV, Automotive, AOSP builds and security tooling. He brings a rare blend of hands-on app engineering and offensive/defensive security skills—comfortable both writing clean architecture apps and using Frida, Jadx, objection and other reverse-engineering tools. Based in Veneto, Italy, Riccardo also holds the state exam in Information Engineering and contributes to academia and industry projects that bridge research findings into practical, secure Android solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. in Cybersecurity for Computer Science & Information Engineering, LM-66, 110 cum laude (with honors), M.Sc. in Cybersecurity for Computer Science & Information Engineering, LM-66, 110 cum laude (with honors) at Università degli Studi di Padova
High School Diploma, ICT, High School Diploma, ICT at ITIS Max Planck