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Madison Oliver Ficorilli

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Staff Manager, Advisory Database at GitHub
📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Madison is the Staff Manager for the Advisory Database at GitHub, where she leads security and engineering teams. A graduate of Penn State and Carnegie Mellon, she is a strong advocate for vulnerability transparency and open-source security. She is also an active member of the CVE Board and OpenSSF.

Outside of her professional life, Madison is passionate about leveraging technology for social good, mentoring young women in IT, and promoting diversity within cybersecurity. Her interests include video games and animal welfare, with a particular fondness for cats. She also serves on the alumni board for Penn States College of IST.

She was the recipient of the 2024 CIO of the Year - Rising Star Award from the Pittsburgh Technology Council.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Staff Manager, Advisory Database
Job Level
Middle
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Vulnerability Transparency
Her work focuses on managing GitHub's Advisory Database, operating a top CVE Naming Authority, and she has published articles on the value of assigning CVEs.
Open Source Security
She is deeply involved with the OpenSSF and frequently posts about securing the open-source ecosystem against supply-chain risks and malware campaigns.
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Career

Work history

9-2025
Staff Manager, Advisory Database
GitHub
1-2022 - 9-2025
Senior Manager, Advisory Database Curation
GitHub
8-2021 - 12-2021
Adjunct Professor
Duquesne University
6-2021 - 1-2022
Incident Response Analyst
GitHub
7-2018
Alumni Board Member
Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
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Education
Master’s Degree
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
2012 - 2016
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
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