Dionysis Zindros
PhD Candidate
Palo Alto, California, Greece
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Top SchoolDionysis Zindros is a cryptography-focused PhD candidate and post-doc-level researcher with 18 years of engineering experience, now based in Palo Alto and working at the intersection of blockchains and cryptography with a specialty in cross-chain interoperability. He combines deep academic training (PhD candidate in Cryptography, Dipl.-Ing. from NTUA) with hands-on systems work—evidenced by open-source contributions to notable projects like Google’s GRR Rapid Response where he improved back-end for live forensics and modernized UI components. His background includes R&D roles at prominent tech firms and a track record of shipping robust, security-sensitive software, making him adept at turning cryptographic research into practical protocols and tooling. Notably, he bridges theory and practice: fluent in low-level system improvements and high-level protocol design for decentralized systems.
18 years of coding experience
Cryptography PhD candidate in Computer Science, Cryptography, Cryptography PhD candidate in Computer Science, Cryptography at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonDipl.-Ing. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
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Github Skills (15)
python10
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rubygems9
configuration-management8
testing8
json7
html6
vim6
mouse6
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
google/grr
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
GRR Rapid Response: remote live forensics for incident response
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dionysis primarily contributed to improving the GRR Rapid Response project's back-end functionality. They worked on refactoring and upgrading the Angular.js version used by the project, which impacted the user interface. Additionally, the user made changes to the Rekall export functionality, enhancing its ability to handle base64 and unicode strings. The user also fixed a configuration issue and added a test for the client deployment process.
incident-responseforensicsgrrrapidrapid-response
dionyziz/config
Mar 2012 - Oct 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 years 8 months
linux-configurationlinuxconfiguration-filesdotfilesshell
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