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Claudio Merloni

Staff Security Researcher, r2c

Claudio is a veteran security expert. After completing his Master in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano University, he started a now more than 15 years long journey in the security space. Security consultant first, then moving through different roles, from technical sales engineering to security research and product engineering. This has allowed him to experience application security from a variety of perspectives.
He fell in love with static source code analysis early on and spent most of his career working with, and on, the leading static analysis solutions.
He’s now part of the security research team at r2c, the makers of Semgrep, and trying to make the world a safer place, one rule at a time.
In his free time he enjoys doing way too many things. If he had to pick up four: synthesizer nerd, avid runner, beginner Go player, foreign languages enthusiast.