Darius Costolas
Cybersecurity Coordinator
Timișoara, Romania
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Top SchoolDarius Costolas is a cybersecurity coordinator based in Timișoara, Romania, with 10 years of hands-on experience across SOC operations, incident response, and infrastructure engineering. He combines practical SIEM/EDR/XDR/SOAR integration and threat detection skills with a background in storage and systems administration, enabling end-to-end incident handling and SOP design. At OEDIV he leads incident management and SOC Level 1 training while maintaining client relationships through Hypercare phases, demonstrating both technical depth and people-focused coaching. A contributor to open-source security tooling, he has implemented and hardened remote webcam features in the Quasar RAT codebase, highlighting a pragmatic understanding of offensive and defensive trade-offs. Academically grounded with a master’s focus in Information Security and Cybernetic Systems, Darius brings cognitive flexibility, process-driven rigor, and a curious, altruistic drive to learn emerging technologies like blockchain.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Security and Cybernetic Systems, Master's degree, Information Security and Cybernetic Systems at Politehnica University of Timisoara
romana, English, German, araba
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Github Skills (18)
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
remote-desktop10
csharp10
windows9
administration9
security8
socket6
pthreads6
angular6
php6
sql6
http6
typescript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
quasar/Quasar
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Remote Administration Tool for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darius primarily contributed to the remote administration tool by implementing and fixing features related to remote webcam access. Their work included adding webcam functionality using AForge, fixing bugs in the webcam implementation to ensure proper shutdown, and adding related UI elements like menu images. The user also made modifications to the build process, including removing unused AForge files to reduce client size and adding a feature to hide install subfolders.
remote-administration-toolwindowsratremoteadministration
meltingice1337/amisafe
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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