Carmine Calabrese.

Extended the MuSe mutation testing tool by developing a wrapper plugin for Remix IDE, focused on mutation testing of Solidity smart contracts. Published and presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER).

Full penetration test of the VulnHub machine Deathnote: 1. Information gathering and vulnerability mapping (Nmap, WPScan, Nessus, OWASP ZAP), exploitation (SSH brute-force), privilege escalation (LinPEAS, sudo misconfigurations) and post-exploitation root reverse shell.

Black-box reverse engineering of a position-dependent encryption algorithm in Exploit Education's Nebula CTF, an automated decryption tool to recover credentials and privilege escalation (getflag).

Project Manager coordinating a 7-student team: sprint planning, deadline tracking and contributions to both technical and business aspects.

Decentralized Anonymous Authentication with Privacy-Preserving Accountability for Connected Vehicles: design and evaluation of a decentralized framework using blockchain and Zero-Knowledge Proofs to ensure vehicular privacy and accountability.

A fast-paced incremental 2D fishing game developed in Unity (C#) published under the Mannyverse indie brand. Features 6 diverse islands, 144 unique fish species, dynamic catch behaviors, an upgrade skill tree, and crew recruitment. Playable demo available on itch.io with full release planned for Steam.

Open-source Minecraft mod built in Java expanding the popular 'Create' tech mod with automated mob grinding mechanisms and kinetic processing. Successfully downloaded and played by over 4,000+ active players in the Minecraft modding community.