Valentino Merlino
AI Red Team Asst. Manager at Accenture
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolValentino Merlino is an AI security professional and Ph.D. researcher with eight years of hands-on experience bridging research, standards work, and operational red teaming. Currently serving as AI Red Team Assistant Manager at Accenture and a committee member on ISO/IEC AI Trustworthiness WG3, he focuses on adversarial testing, risk management, and data quality for safe AI deployment. His background spans industry roles at DEKRA and Leonardo as well as academic tutoring and doctoral research at the University of Catania, blending rigorous cybersecurity and data science training with practical threat assessment. Known for translating standards into testable controls, he brings both auditor-level discipline (ISO 42001 familiarity) and practitioner pragmatism to secure AI lifecycles. Based in Málaga, he pairs international education (University of Plymouth, University of Catania) with multidisciplinary experience that helps organizations operationalize responsible AI.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cybersecurity and Data Science, 110L, Master's degree, Cybersecurity and Data Science, 110L at University of CataniaMsc Cybersecurity, Msc Cybersecurity at University of PlymouthDottorato di ricerca, Computer Science, Dottorato di ricerca, Computer Science at Università di Catania
Github Skills (17)
ubuntu5
gmm3
mfcc3
transform3
noise3
ctf3
digital-signal-processing2
linux2
signal-processing2
spectrogram2
ips2
python2
fourier-transform2
viewer2
systemd2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Valentjno/ELF-Miner-Python3
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
hackerers-unictf/unictf-2019
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:7 commits in 10 days
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