Evgeniy Kozyrev
SRT Member at Synack Red Team
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgeniy Kozyrev is a Unix security specialist and seasoned sysadmin with nine years of experience securing and operating large-scale Linux and FreeBSD infrastructures. He currently focuses on offensive security as a Synack Red Team member while leading Unix security audits, CIS configuration assessments, and incident investigations at Positive Technologies. His background includes building and migrating multi-tier, latency-sensitive database infrastructure at Yandex and operating thousands of servers for high-traffic web properties, giving him deep expertise in OS internals, networking, and performance tuning. Hands-on skills span shell/Python/Perl, firewalls, proxies, monitoring, configuration management (Ansible/CFengine/Chef), and virtualization (KVM/Xen/Docker/LXC). Comfortable across both defensive and offensive domains, he also contributes practical security standards to commercial products (Max Patrol, Max Patrol SIEM). Based in Saint Petersburg, he blends low-level systems knowledge with applied security engineering for resilient, high-load environments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, CCNA, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Networking AcademySpecialist, Specialist at Moscow University for the Humanities; National Institute of BusinessIntroduction to Computer Science and Programming, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming at Saint Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian, English
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qrik116/sb-letter
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
qrik116/qrik116.github.io
Nov 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 6 months
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