Mario Mercaldi is a Lead Security Engineer at Salesforce, with a career rooted in building security tools, reverse engineering software, and leading large-scale risk assessments. For over a decade, he has combined offensive and product security expertise with a passion for automation and developing practical frameworks that help organizations scale security without losing precision. Today, Mario focuses on applying AI and emerging standards such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to shift security from reactive detection to proactive prevention - bringing a practitioner’s eye for detail to one of the industry’s biggest transformations.