Curriculum Vitae

Michele Gusella

Cybersecurity engineer with a passion for full-stack development.

01. EXPERIENCE
IT Technician may 2019 - sept 2019
EEPROM ↗

After a month of unpaid internship (May - June) found through my high school "Itis E. Fermi" from Bassano del Grappa, I was hired until the beginning of the following school year for my skills and my ability to tackle any kind of problem.

02. EDUCATION
Master's degree in Cybersecurity sept 2023 - apr 2026
University of Padua
Degree certificate ↗

Grade: 110/110 cum laude

Focus on AI, Ethical hacking and mobile (android) security.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering sept 2020 - sept 2023
University of Padua
Degree certificate ↗

Grade: 108/110

Technical Institute Diploma, IT and Telecommunications sept 2015 - june 2020
ITIS E. Fermi Bassano del Grappa
School website ↗

Grade: 96/100

03. SKILLS & TOOLS

Tech Stack

JavaScript HTML/CSS C/C++ Java Python SQL Git Docker

Design & Soft Skills

Agile/Scrum Team working Problem Solving English B2 (First)
04. AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
Hackaton Hack-in-towers BOOM • sept 2025
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Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE) EC-Council • sept 2024
Verify ↗
English B2 - Speaking University of Padua • feb 2024
Verify ↗
Amateur Radio License, Call Sign IU3OET Ministry for Business and Made in Italy • dec 2019
CCNA Routing and Switching: Introduction to Networks Cisco Networking Academy • may 2019
Cambridge English Level 1 Certificate in ESOL International (First/FCE/B2) Cambridge English • may 2019
CCNA: Introduction to Cybersecurity Cisco Networking Academy • apr 2018
05. PROJECTS
Leveraging GDPR Data Portability: A User-Centric Approach to Social Media Analytics oct 2025 - apr 2026
University of Padua
Thesis ↗ Presentation ↗

Master's thesis project. I studied how data download packages provided by social networks are structured, and I proposed a framework to perform a cross correlation analysis on this data.

Evaluating Local LLMs for Vulnerability Detection and Reasoning jan 2025 - feb 2025
University of Padua
Paper ↗ Presentation ↗

Project for "Advanced Topics in Computer and Network Security" course. We tested the ability of LLMs in code vulnerability’s detection by adapting the framework SecLLMHolmes ↗ to work with Ollama.

Lupus In Fabula Webapp apr 2024 - june 2024
University of Padua
Repo ↗

Project for "Web Applications" course. We used Java servlets (Maven), PostgreSQL, JSP/HTML, CSS and JS.

UNIPD Quiz App jan 2024 - PRESENT
App ↗

I created an app to allow students to study by taking quizzes with exam-like questions.

Fooling The Detector feb 2024
University of Padua
Repo ↗

University project for "Digital Forensics and Biometrics" course. This project aims at understanding and implementing ways to fool synthetic image detectors.