Stefano Traverso
Head Of Strategy & Innovation - Co-founder
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Traverso is a technology leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building research-driven cybersecurity and web protection products from academia to market. With a PhD from Politecnico di Torino, he has authored dozens of papers, filed multiple patents, and built and now leads multidisciplinary R&D teams focused on AI, privacy, security and scalable web defenses. At Ermes he has scaled protection coverage and overseen 10+ AI projects, vulnerability assessments for numerous companies, and the creation of a research unit from scratch. He combines deep academic rigor—five best paper awards and EU project experience—with hands-on product engineering and strategic direction as Head of Strategy & Innovation. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating low-level network and measurement research into practical, high-throughput security tooling. Based in Turin, he bridges cutting-edge research and deployable cybersecurity at startup speed.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
debugging10
security9
ja39
proxy9
websocket9
mitmproxy9
man-in-the-middle9
ssl9
fiddler9
http-header9
http8
python8
http-proxy7
reference-implementation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fp7mplane/components
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes in 1 month
straverso/tstat-post-processing
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
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