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name
Filippo De Grandi
role
Systems & Embedded Security Engineer
location
Italy, currently Ireland
email
fdegra@proton.me
github
Degra02
linkedin
filippo-de-grandi-226198224
download cv.pdf

work experience

Secure Kernel Developer Intern @Qualcomm

June 2026 – Present · Cork, Ireland
  • TEE team: develop and review secure-world components running under ARM TrustZone (TEE, secure monitor, aarch64)
  • Develop Trusted Applications and the corresponding HLOS daemon bridging normal-world clients to secure-world services
  • Threat-model and review the boundaries between the normal world (Linux) and the secure world

Intern @Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK

2024 · Trento, Italy
  • Worked on the thesis project regarding CVEs and CWEs, studying the current state of the art on BAS tools

Student Tutor – Advanced Programming @University of Trento

2023 – Present · Trento, Italy
  • Tutor on the Rust programming language, creating exercises and teaching students

education

Master in Computer Science, Cybersecurity track @University of Trento

2024 – Present · Trento, Italy
  • Relevant coursework: Security Testing, Network Security, Ethical Hacking, Applied Cryptography, Advanced Programming of Cryptographic Methods
  • Current GPA: 29.5/30

Bachelor of Science in Computer, Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering @University of Trento

2021 – 2024 · Trento, Italy
  • Thesis: BAS Tools — Implementation of an attack pattern to mimic a threat actor — 110/110 with honors
  • Relevant coursework: Advanced Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Software Engineering

projects & associations

eCTF Challenge Participant @MITRE Corporation

2025 – 2026 · Trento, Italy
  • Member of the UniTN team in a two-phase embedded security competition: design a secure system to spec, then attack other teams' validated designs
  • 2026: contributed to a Hardware Security Module for a chip foundry — encrypted file storage with permission-group access control and HSM-to-HSM transfers (7th place)
  • 2025: contributed to a satellite TV decoder enforcing per-channel subscriptions over a unidirectional broadcast stream (13th place)
  • Attack phase: analyzed and exploited other teams' designs via software and hardware attacks
  • C
  • Python
  • GDB
  • ChipWhisperer
  • Embedded

CyberChallenge Finalist @Cybersecurity National Lab – CINI

2024 · Trento & Torino, Italy
  • Reached the final stage with the UniTN team, competing across web security, cryptography, reverse engineering and binary exploitation
  • Python
  • Ghidra
  • GDB
  • Burp Suite

Self-hosted Linux Environment @Personal Infrastructure / Homelab

2022 – Present · Italy
  • Run a Proxmox cluster self-hosting personal services: hardened Linux hosts, VPN, automated backups and monitoring
  • Manage secrets and reverse proxying; configuration kept reproducible and version-controlled
  • Linux
  • Proxmox
  • Docker
  • Git

awards

  • Public AI Challenge Winner — HIT & Trentino Sviluppo: ML model predicting pollen concentration from weather data
  • Hackathon Winner — NOI Techpark: Contributed to C3Nav, an open-source indoor navigation system

skills

security
ARM TrustZone / TEE, embedded attack & defense, binary exploitation, reverse engineering, side-channel & fault injection, threat modeling, MITRE ATT&CK / CVE / CWE
systems
Linux internals, containers, networking
languages
Rust, C, C++, Python, Bash, assembly (ARM/x86)
tools
GDB, Ghidra, ChipWhisperer, QEMU, Docker, Proxmox, Git, CI/CD
spoken
English (C1 Cambridge, C2 Bulats), Italian (native)