Rich Piazza
Lead Engineer at MITRE
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRich Piazza is a lead engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and over three decades of deep technical work spanning AI, software assurance, and secure systems engineering. At MITRE he leads programs around cyber threat intelligence (co-editing the OASIS STIX standard) and manages CAPEC as technical lead, while also prototyping post-quantum cryptography integrations into OpenSSL. His background includes designing large-scale testing workbenches (STEW) and building integration frameworks and developer tooling at IBM Rational, reflecting strengths in systems design, interoperability, and scalable evaluation infrastructure. Rich combines research-grade expertise in program analysis and reverse engineering with hands-on software delivery in Agile environments, and he has repeatedly translated academic ideas into usable government and commercial prototypes. Based in Arlington, MA, he brings uncommon continuity across legacy-code recovery, threat intelligence standards, and cutting-edge crypto experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Math, BS, Computer Science and Math at University at AlbanyMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (50)
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ctf10
python10
json-schema10
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duplication10
cybersecurity10
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threat-intelligence10
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oasis10
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client-library9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oasis-open/cti-stix-elevator
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) TC Open Repository: Convert STIX 1.2 XML to STIX 2.x JSON
Contributions:20 releases, 30 reviews, 706 commits in 6 years 2 months
pythonctistix2oasisthreat-intelligence
rpiazza/cti-stix-common-objects
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) TC: A repository for commonly used STIX objects in order to avoid needless duplication. https://github.com/oasis-open/cti-stix-common-objects
Contributions:75 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
cyberstixcyber-threat-intelligencecommonlysecurity
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