Paolo Diomede, Technical Account Manager | Certora
I help protocol teams ship safer smart contracts by translating risk into clear security requirements, then driving execution across formal verification, smart contract auditing, and security-in-production practices.
Certora is a smart contract security company focused on preventing failures before they happen, and helping teams operate safely after launch.
Certora’s flagship product is the Certora Prover, a formal verification engine that checks smart contracts against specifications (rules and invariants), exploring edge cases that tests and manual review can miss.
Learn more: https://www.certora.com/prover and https://docs.certora.com/ oai_citation:0‡certora.com
Certora also delivers smart contract audits, with a differentiator: combining manual auditing and formal verification guarantees in one engagement/report. oai_citation:1‡certora.com
Security does not stop at “ship.” Certora actively pushes a lifecycle approach that includes real-time monitoring and operational readiness, including collaborations with monitoring leaders (for example, Certora’s partnership work with Hypernative for real-time monitoring and lifecycle assurance). oai_citation:2‡certora.com
Certora has also published monitoring-oriented research and tooling such as Safeguard, focused on monitoring critical invariants in real time. oai_citation:3‡certora.com
A lot of protocol losses come from operational failure modes: key management, multisig hygiene, access control around sensitive systems, and process weaknesses. Certora publishes practical OpSec guidance and encourages modern approaches like zero-trust thinking for protecting teams and systems. oai_citation:4‡certora.com
I partner with engineering and security teams to turn “we need to be secure” into an actionable plan and measurable outcomes:
- Partner with teams to define security goals, scope, and success criteria
- Translate protocol risks into verifiable properties and reviewable requirements
- Coordinate delivery across verification and audit workflows, keep comms tight and execution unblocked
- Help teams integrate verification into their release and upgrade process
- Support lifecycle posture: monitoring strategy, incident readiness, and practical OpSec habits
DeFi security, protocol design, upgrade safety, invariants, defense-in-depth, monitoring, and security operations.