Georgios Makrakis
OT Security Consultant at Kiwa Nederland
Idaho Falls, Idaho, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgios Makrakis is an OT Security Consultant and Ph.D. candidate with a decade of hands-on experience at the intersection of industrial control systems security, research, and software engineering. He leads maritime-focused security research, develops intrusion detection and prevention techniques for ICS, and has translated academic work into stakeholder-ready projects and publications review. His background includes building IoT and EMS/BEMS cloud platforms in industry, crafting cyberattack scenarios for nuclear plant simulators, and competing in live ICS defense exercises where his team ranked in the top quartile. Comfortable in both research and applied engineering, he contributes to open-source and maintains an active GitHub and technical blog, signaling a commitment to reproducible security tooling. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between rigorous academic methods and practical operational security, able to explain complex ICS threats to engineers and operators alike.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of IdahoBachelor's degree, Information and Communication Systems Engineering, 6.97/10, Bachelor's degree, Information and Communication Systems Engineering, 6.97/10 at University of the Aegean
Github Skills (86)
siemens10
security10
scada10
modbus-tcp10
opc10
plc10
ics-security10
easymodbus10
migration10
iiot10
udp9
industrial9
checkpoint9
client-server9
suspend9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
georgemakrakis/PatternLock_MWSEC2018
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
georgemakrakis/georgemakrakis.github.io
May 2019 - Sep 2023
My personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
reactnextjs
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