fdegra"/projects"

guest@fdegra.com:~/projects$ls -la projects/

Competitions, and the infrastructure I actually run. Code is onDegra02.

eCTF Challenge Participant @MITRE Corporation

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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