PaoloMontesel

• Binary analysis platform: kickstarted it from scratch and built the multi-algorithm similarity engine (vector similarity, string/callgraph hashing, microcode/IR dataflow hashing).
• Binary ingestion pipeline: auto-scaling crawlers, analysis workers and a search engine ingesting open-source and proprietary software weekly to generate signatures for downstream analysis services.

Options market-maker. Worked on the internal trading UI (Rust + ImGui), scenario pricing, and risk modeling over live market data. 3 months internship converted into a permanent role.

Internal security at a multi-strategy hedge fund: reverse engineering and vendor-risk assessments of third-party software and mobile apps, custom tooling.

• Big Match: search engine that identifies the open-source libraries linked into a compiled binary, using GitHub as the corpus. Solo research project. demo blog bashML HITB Phuket 2023 talk
• LLVM-based s390-to-x86 JIT for LZLabs Software Defined Mainframe. Main developer for ~7 months, now in production at a major Swiss bank.
• QEMU Hexagon: bison-driven pipeline from the Qualcomm ISA spec to TCG generators, validated by differential testing against the reference emulator. Collaboration with Qualcomm.

Run the team's public presence: social media, video and content production, sponsor relations, merchandise. On site at DEF CON 2023 for logistics and filming when the team won the Hack-A-Sat finals.

Two-person startup in collaboration with Pittarosso, a large Italian apparel retailer: deep-learning proof of concept for shoe type, brand, and color recognition from in-store video, taken to executive-level talks. Owned dataset creation, CNN training, and evaluation.

Built COBOL reverse-engineering tools, contributed to the team's Haskell codebase, and built web-based visualizations of legacy systems from source-code metadata. Internship arranged through the Vulcanus in Japan program.