Valerio Lupi
Chief Technology Officer at Mentat
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolValerio Lupi is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Tuscany with over 25 years of hands-on experience building security and surveillance products, and 11 years in senior and leadership roles. He architects and leads backend development for Mentat’s open-source DFIR and threat-hunting tool "gulp," while previously running teams developing mobile/desktop agents, OSINT frameworks, and hardware-backed license/runtime protection. His deep expertise spans Windows kernel drivers, Android reverse engineering, and modular C++ agents—skills honed across companies from TE4I and Hacking Team to CY4GATE and Verint. Valerio blends low-level systems craftsmanship with practical product delivery, often implementing unconventional protections like runtime Python encryption tied to YubiKey hardware. A self-proclaimed hacker and longtime contributor to security discourse (including published writing on rootkits), he pairs curiosity-driven research with disciplined engineering leadership. His background in biology and early work in reverse-engineering give him a distinctive, interdisciplinary perspective on complex security problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Commericale "Calamandrei", LivornoBiology, Biology at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (126)
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linux9
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coordinates9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
valerino/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:56 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
valerino/vc64-emu
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:232 commits, 192 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
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