Matteo Da Venezia McCormack

AI engineer intern @ Red Hat · BA (Mod) Computer Science @ Trinity, specialising in AI & security

EVERY SECOND COUNTS.

Half Venetian, half Irish. Fourteen weeks on autonomous networks at Huawei Ireland Research Centre. Founder of the Wild Hunt Project. Training as a security researcher on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Hack The Box and TryHackMe.

Pixel-art portrait of Matteo Da Venezia McCormack
MATTEO DA VENEZIA McCORMACK
AI INTERN / SECURITY RESEARCH / FOUNDER
LocDublin, IE
LangIT / EN
NowRed Hat
CertCCNA 100/100
HuntWild Hunt founder
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Featured work

★ LEGENDARY

Fenrir

Why: a real, public product you can run

Open-source real-time missile guidance and pursuit simulation. Live 2D trajectories, proportional navigation, evasive targets, telemetry and a radar view. Built in Python + Streamlit so the maths is visible, not hidden in a slide.

PythonStreamlitsimulation
★ LEGENDARY

The Wild Hunt Project

Why: a community I actually run

A live site and manifesto for people who hunt problems instead of walking past them. I founded it in 2024, wrote the framework, shipped the website, and still run the challenge series. Not a tutorial clone — a thing with a URL and a point of view.

foundercommunityweb

Also: Review Lens — TCD × Dell, 12-week sentiment widget (React, TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS). Presented at Dell HQ. Huawei Tech Arena 2025 — 3rd place, team Hot Potters.

02

Experience

// ai engineer intern
Red Hat
Jun 2026 – Present · Dublin, IE
  • AI engineering internship. Open source, shipped software, and the kind of problems that do not fit in a lab notebook.
// research intern
Huawei Ireland Research Centre
Mar 2026 – Jun 2026 · Dublin, IE · 14 weeks
  • Autonomous networks: literature, structured reports, Python/SQL/pytest, and thinking at both system scale and packet scale.
// security researcher
Freelance
Jan 2026 – Present · Remote
  • Bug bounty on HackerOne and Bugcrowd: web flaws, misconfigurations, logic issues, written up and disclosed.
  • CTF training on Hack The Box and TryHackMe — web, Linux, enumeration, privilege escalation.
// founder
Wild Hunt Project
Dec 2024 – Present
  • Built the site, the manifesto, and the challenge series for a worldwide pack of problem-hunters.
// engineering apprentice
Dell Technologies × Trinity
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
  • Review Lens: product-review summaries via sentiment analysis. Twelve weeks, final presentation at Dell HQ.
03

Stack

Security

  • Web app testing
  • HackerOne / Bugcrowd
  • Hack The Box / TryHackMe
  • Linux enumeration

Networks

  • CCNA (100/100, merit)
  • Autonomous networks (Huawei)
  • Python / SQL
  • Docker

Software

  • Python
  • TypeScript / React
  • Node
  • Git
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About

I didn't fall into technology. I walked towards it. Integrated Computer Science at Trinity, specialising in AI and security; fourteen weeks inside Huawei's network research; now an AI intern at Red Hat. The rest of the hours go to security research and to people who still notice when something is broken.

"The best problem-solvers aren't defined by their job title. They're defined by the hunt."
Integrated Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
Oct 2022 – Present · Dublin, IE
  • Specialising in artificial intelligence and security — work on AI, security and privacy, and the networks those systems actually run on.
CCNA
Cisco Networking Academy
2020 – 2022 · 100/100 with merit
Diploma — Computer Systems, Networking & Telecoms
Enrico Fermi Venezia
Sep 2017 – Jun 2022 · Venezia, IT
// signed Your Friendly Neighbourhood Wolf

CTFs: Fetch the Flag 2026 (Snyk), Love at First Breach 2026 (TryHackMe), HTB Uni CTF 2025, Advent of Cyber 2025, Huntress CTF 2025. Campus: Chess, Entrepreneurial, Pirate (security), Space societies at TCD.

05

Field notes

Prototype log. Two notes, no CMS — click to expand.

// note 001

The hunt is the job title

Aug 2026 · community

Why I started the Wild Hunt Project instead of waiting for a nicer label on LinkedIn.

Job titles lag behind the work. I was already hunting broken things — in labs, in CTFs, in other people's production — long before anyone paid me to. The Wild Hunt Project is that instinct written down: a public rule-set for people who refuse to walk past a problem.

Recruiters ask what I "am". The honest answer is narrower than a stack list and wider than intern. I study computer science at Trinity, specialising in AI and security. I ship simulations, I disclose bugs, I run a pack. The through-line is the hunt.

// note 002

Fenrir, or making pursuit visible

2026 · engineering

A Sunday curiosity that became a public Python lab for missile guidance and pursuit.

Fenrir started as caffeine and a question: can you see proportional navigation, or does it only live in lecture slides? The dashboard is the answer. Live trajectories, evasive targets, telemetry, a radar view — Python and Streamlit, all of it runnable.

I published it because a simulation you cannot clone is just a screenshot. Repo: TheVenetianWolf/Fenrir.

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Contact

Copy the address. No form, no mailto trap.

lupus@portfolio:~ — optional. type help
[OK] email is above. this shell is extra.
visitor@lupus:~$

+ 9999 XP

Cheat code accepted.
The Wolf approves.
"True mastery is curiosity that never logs off."

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