Simone Ferrini
Research Director & Managing Partner at Paradigm Shift
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Ferrini is a Research Director and Managing Partner with 12 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development across user-space, kernel, embedded firmware and iOS platforms. Based in Barcelona, he blends low-level security expertise with practical firmware and mobile development, having shipped real-time MCU firmware and consumer iOS apps before moving into advanced offensive research. He has led and built research teams, contributed critical fixes to the radare2 reverse engineering framework (including ARM/thumb assembler improvements and glibc heap vulnerability fixes), and routinely combines fuzzing, hardware analysis and CTF-honed techniques to find subtle bugs. Simone is known for digging into OS mitigations and heap internals to turn deep technical knowledge into actionable zero-day research and consultancy.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Accountant programmer Economic technical institute, Accountant programmer Economic technical institute at IISS A. PesentiDiploma Tecnico elettronico, Diploma Tecnico elettronico at I.P.S.I.A Antonio Pacinotti, PontederaObjective C Mobile, Objective C Mobile at Objective C srl
English
Github Skills (14)
c1710
arm10
radare210
assembly10
c1110
malware10
reverse-engineering10
binarydiff10
assembler10
anti-malware10
glibc9
memory-management9
command-line8
security8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Simone contributed to the reverse engineering framework by fixing bugs and adding features related to ARM assembly, specifically for the thumb architecture. They improved the functionality of the ARM assembler by adding support for sequence registers in pop instructions. Furthermore, the user addressed heap-related vulnerabilities within the glibc heap implementation used by the framework. These improvements include critical fixes to chunk sizes and memory allocation within the core functionalities of the reverse engineering tool.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
sferrini/SFSwiftNotification
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Simple custom user notifications in Swift (DEPRECATED)
Contributions:21 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
user-notificationsnotificationsswiftiosmacos
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