Summary
Rocco Calvi is a founder and senior vulnerability researcher with over a decade of hands-on experience uncovering high-impact flaws across web, binary, firmware, and hardware ecosystems. He leads TecSecurity’s vulnerability research practice and previously built and ran the Digital Security Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute, where he combined automated source-code analysis with team building and industry partnerships. Rocco’s work includes dozens of critical remote code execution discoveries in major products (over 270 CVEs) and multiple top placements on Microsoft’s Office Security leaderboard, reflecting both technical depth and real-world impact. Comfortable from C/C++ exploitation to fuzzing and large-scale code audits, he regularly crafts working exploits to demonstrate risk and mitigation. His background in coordinating disclosure programs and contributing to community projects like Metasploit and Exploit-DB shows a commitment to responsible, practical security advancement.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology & Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology & Information Systems at Swinburne University of Technology