About
Paolo Perego works where software engineering meets security.
Armored Code is his independent technical publication and project umbrella for application security research, secure software engineering, and open-source tooling.
Engineering before theatre
Paolo is a Product Security and Application Security engineer, vulnerability researcher, and code reviewer. His work focuses on understanding how software fails in practice: the code paths that are actually reachable, the architecture around them, and the engineering trade-offs required to fix them well.
He builds open-source security tools to make analysis reproducible and useful. That includes scanners and execution layers as well as systems that normalize, correlate, deduplicate, and prioritize their output.
What Armored Code covers
The publication is for engineers who want security guidance they can apply: vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, secure design, code review, exploitability, and practical guardrails for development teams.
The editorial principle is simple: signal what matters, ignore the rest. More findings are not automatically better. Useful security work helps people understand risk and make sound engineering decisions.