Gaspare Ferraro

Curriculum

Work Experiences

• CyberChallenge.IT / CINI

  Rome, Italy
  Sep '19 - Present

  Member of the scientific and technical committee for CyberChallenge.IT 2020: the Italian training program in cybersecurity that involves 28 universities and 4.500 students.
  Developer of the project website and the training platform.
  Leader of the admission phase: in charge of the creation of the logical and programming tests for the admission, the evaluation and the selection of the best italian students to the CyberChallenge.IT project.

• Reply S.p.A.

  Turin, Italy
  Sep '19 - Present

  Organizer and developer for the Reply Challenges: Code Challenge - Teen & Standard Edition and Cyber Security Challenge.
  International team-based competitions in competitive programming and cyber security that involved in 2 years about 40.000 participants from more 100 countries all around the world.
  In charge of the design, implementation and testing of the problems for the competitions.

• Italian Olympiads in Informatics

  Volterra (& others), Italy
  Sep '14 - Present

  Official trainer for the Italian IOI Team (International Olympiads in Informatics) at SIAF International School for Advanced Education in Volterra (Tuscany).
  Member of the scientific and technical committee of the annual Italian Olympiad in Informatics, editions:

  • OII2019 @ Matera
  • OII2018 @ Campobasso
  • OII2017 @ Trento
  • OII2016 @ Catania
  • OII2015 @ Castiglione dei Pepoli

  Trainer of the regional (Ligurian) partecipants to the Italian Olympiads in Informatics.

• Syneo Tools GmbH

  Hamburg, Germany
  Gen '18 - Dec '19

  Backend developer, algorithmist and data scientist.
  Design of algorithms and development of software for data and image analysis.
  Customized solutions for data acquisition and storage for the business sector.

• Scuola Telecomunicazioni Forze Armate, Ministero Della Difesa

  Chiavari, Italy
  Nov '19 - Dec '19

  Teacher for "Scuola Telecomunicazioni Forze Armate" in Chiavari (the Italian military school of telecommunications).
  Teaching in the "Advanced Unix/Linux Administrators" course, module "Advanced User Management".
  Topics about advance authentication, authorization and accounting techniques, logging, NSS, PAM for custom authentication, directory services, X.500 protocols, LDAP protocol and integration with PAM and NSS modules, cryptography, hash functions, Kerberos protocol.

• CyberChallenge.IT / University of Pisa

  Pisa, Italy
  Feb '19 - Jun '19

  Teacher and trainer for the cybersecurity team of University of Pisa for the CyberChallenge.IT 2019: the Italian cybersecurity training program.
  Preparation of lessons and workshops about reverse engineering, cryptography and web security.
  Preparation of challenge and technical support for the national jeopardy CTF competition.
  Our team (University of Pisa) ranked 3rd (out of 18 teams from various italian universities) in the final Attack & Defense CTF.

• Reply S.p.A.

  Turin, Italy
  Oct '18 - Mar '19

  Codemaster for the Reply Code Challenge, standard and teen editions: an international competitive programming challenge with 15.000 registration from more than 100 countries worldwide.
  In charge of the design, implementation and testing of the problems for the competitions.

• University of Genoa

  Genoa, Italy
  Oct '18 - Nov '18

  Trainer for the competitive programming team of University of Genoa at the SWERC 2018 in Paris (the regional selection for the ACM ICPC World Finals).

• University of Pisa

  Pisa, Italy
  Gen '18 - Apr '18

  Laboratory assistant for the Computer Science department.
  Preparation of lessons and workshops about C programming, algorithms and data structures.

• Trussdesign

  Genoa, Italy
  Jan '14 - Jun '14

  Android app development and internal technical support.

Education

• University of Pisa

  Pisa, Italy
  Jan '18 - Present

  Master Degree in Computer Science
  Curriculum: "Data and Knowledge: Science and Technologies"

• University of Pisa

  Pisa, Italy
  Oct '14 - Dec '17

  Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
  Thesis: "Subgraph similarity in complex networks"
  Supervised by Roberto Grossi and Andrea Marino

Skills

• Programming language & Technologies

  Proficient with:

  • C/C++ (System Programming, POSIX, PThreads, STL, Parallel applications, ...).
  • Java (Android app development, J2EE, Tomcat, Javadoc, Junit, ...).
  • Web Development (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap, Node.js, ...).
  • Database (Mysql, PostgreSQL).
  • Linux (Bash scripting, System administration).
  • Version control (Git, Microsoft Team Foundation Server).
  • Amazon Web Services (RDS, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ...).
  • Firebase (Authentication, Realtime Database, Crash reporting, ...).

  Familiar with other languages and technologies like: Python, PHP, NoSql (MongoDb), C#, F#, OCaml.

• Theoretical knowledge

  Strong background in competitive programming, problem solving, algorithms (focused mainly on data analysis, graph theory and social network analysis), data structures and maths.

• Other skills

  • Italian mother-tongue and fluent in English.
  • Good organizational skills and work management.

Publications

• KDD 2018

  London, UK
  Aug '18

  Alessio Conte, Gaspare Ferraro, Roberto Grossi, Andrea Marino, Kunihiko Sadakane, Takeaki Uno:
  Node Similarity with q-Grams for Real-World Labeled Networks. (doi KDD 2018: 1282-1291)

Hobbies

• Rubik's Cubes

• Guitars

• Juggling

• Travels

Contests

• Cybersecurity contests

  Online
  '18 - Present

  Participation in various cybersecurity contests (Capture the Flag competitions), as official member of the CTF Team located at University of Genoa ZenHack Team.

• Competitive programming contests

  Online
  '12 - Present

  Participation in various programming contests like Google HashCode, Google Code Jam, COCI, Codeforces.

• Reply Cyber Security Challenge

  Online
  11-12 Oct '19

  A non-stop 24 hours online cyber security competition, organized by Reply.
  Our team (RibbaBoys, formed by me, Luigi Sciolla, Emilio Cafè Nunes and Giovanni Minotti) placed 1° (out of 1296 teams from all over the world).
  

• International Olympiad in Informatics 2019

  Baku, Azerbaijan
  Aug '19

  Deputy team leader for the Italian Team at the 31th edition of the International Olympiad in Informatics, held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

• Zerynth Python challenge

  Online
  Jul '19

  Second place at the Zerynth python challenge organized by Codemotion. Winner of a Xinabox XK03 development kit (a modular prototyping platform fo IoT) and a Raspberry Pi 3b+.

• Codeflows

  Milan, Italy
  May '19

  An italian competitive programming competition hosted by the first european mobile app developer company Bending Spoons. Ranked in the top 40 positions, out of 2000 participants, in the selection phase and ranked 5th during the final competition hosted in Bending Spoons headquarter (Milan).

• First Ascent

  Copenaghen, Denmark
  Sep '18

  Selected as one of the best 20 italian computer science students, after a selection with over 400 students, by the first italian and european mobile app developer company Bending Spoons.

• Central European Olympiad in Informatics

  Warsaw, Poland
  Aug '18

  Team leader of the Italian Team.

• Reply Code Challenge

  Online
  15 Mar '18

  Online programming competition, organized by Reply.
  Our team (Hasheti team, formed by me, Luca Versari, Alessio Conte and Daniele De Sensi) placed 1° (out of 1207 teams).
  Kindly invited to the Reply Headquarter in Turin, our team was awarded with 4 Razer Blade Gaming Laptop.

• CyberChallenge.IT

  Genoa/Rome, Italy
  Feb '18 - Jun '18

  University of Genoa' Team member of the national Cyber Security contest.
  Theoretical lessons and pratical CTF competitions hosted by CSecLab (part of the Cyber Security National Laboratory).
  Winner of the local CTF and member of the genoese team in the national final held in Rome.

• Balkan Olympiad in Informatics

  Chisinau, Moldova
  Jul '17

  Team leader of the Italian Team.

• International Olympiad in Informatics 2014

  Taipei, Taiwan
  Jul '14

  Partecipant as member of the Italian Team.

• Italian Olympiad in Informatics 2013

  Salerno, Italy
  Sep '13

  Participant and winner of a silver medal.

• Italian Olympiad in Informatics 2012

  Sirmione, Italy
  Sep '12

  First participations at the Italian Olympiad in Informatics.

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