Steve Maresca
Senior Security Engineer at Vancord
West Haven, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Maresca is a Senior Security Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience blending systems security, virtualization, and development across enterprise and research environments. Based in West Haven, he has led teams and research at Zentific and Vancord while protecting tens of thousands of devices at the University of Connecticut, specializing in Xen, VMware, cloud platforms, forensics, log analytics, and IAM. An active contributor to the LibVMI project, he has extended the API and enhanced Xen memory event support to improve system introspection—work that underscores his deep virtualization expertise. Comfortable straddling engineering, research, and operations, he brings an entrepreneurial curiosity informed by formal training in computer science and English.
16 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, English, BS, Computer Science, English at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (9)
memory-management10
xen10
c-programming10
virtualization10
apidoc9
kvm9
api9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
libvmi/libvmi
Jan 2013 - Jul 2019
The official home of the LibVMI project is at https://github.com/libvmi/libvmi.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:127 commits, 71 PRs, 59 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the LibVMI project by adding and modifying code in `libvmi.h`, `kvm.c`, `xen.c`, and related files. Their work focused on expanding the LibVMI API and functionality, with changes including adding `extern C` declarations for C++ compatibility, exposing the `vmi_pagetable_lookup()` function, and incorporating the number of VCPUs into the VMI instance. Furthermore, the user integrated and expanded the Xen memory events support to improve system introspection.
linux
smaresca/xenhvm_uuid
Sep 2009 - Dec 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 4 years 3 months
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