Aristofanis Koufakos
Founder & Lead Pentester at IMIZI Cyber
Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda
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Top SchoolAristofanis Koufakos is a founder and lead pentester with eight years of hands-on offensive security experience focused on financial institutions across Europe and East Africa. He runs IMIZI Cyber from Kigali, leading manual red team, web/mobile/API, USSD and mobile-money assessments for BNR-regulated banks and fintechs, and has completed 50+ engagements across a dozen countries. A former internal red teamer at Danske Bank and BlackHat Europe Arsenal speaker, he combines enterprise AD and infrastructure attack chain expertise with compliance knowledge (BNR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001). He’s an OSCP+, OSCP and PNPT-certified practitioner who also contributed Honeyscanner to the Honeynet Project via Google Summer of Code, and has trained 400+ security professionals. Known for preferring manual, bespoke testing over automated scans, he bridges technical depth with pragmatic remediation and training.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Telecommunications at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonTechnical University of DenmarkErasmus+ Exchange Student, Computer Science, Erasmus+ Exchange Student, Computer Science at Ulster University
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Github Skills (27)
react-redux10
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indico10
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react8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CERN/slides
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Slides - A web based Slides creator, made @ CERN
Contributions:106 commits, 4 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 months
reactcernweb-basedreact-reduxslideshow
aristofanischionis/aristofanischionis
Sep 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:596 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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