Ivan Makatura
Cybersecurity Director at U. S. Steel Košice s.r.o.
Slovakia
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Top SchoolIvan Makatura is a seasoned cybersecurity director and advocate with over eight years in senior security leadership and two decades of technical experience spanning banks, consulting, and national cybersecurity institutions. He currently leads cybersecurity at U. S. Steel Košice while co-heading a private consultancy and has previously directed Slovakia’s Cyber Security Competence and Certification Centre and served on the management board of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre. Ivan blends technical foundations (MSc in Electrical Engineering and Informatics, PhD work in Computer and Information Systems Security) with practical incident- and policy-level leadership, having held CSO roles in major Slovak banks and executive consulting at IBM. Equally at home with code and governance, he tinkers with C++ and C#—recently developing a Twitch bot—illustrating a hands-on curiosity that complements his strategic remit. Known for bridging industry, government, and academia, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, regulatory expertise, and operational security practice to large-scale critical infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Qualified expert witness Judicial Expertising, Qualified expert witness Judicial Expertising at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveEvidentiary Rules and Criminal Law Procedures, Evidentiary Rules and Criminal Law Procedures at Ústav súdneho inžinierstva Žilinskej univerzityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Faculty of Management, Comenius University in BratislavaMSc. Electrical Engineering and Informatics, MSc. Electrical Engineering and Informatics at Technical University of Košice
Slovak, Hungarian, English
Github Skills (12)
tilemap9
client-server8
monogame8
multiplayer7
server7
mmo6
opengl6
game-development6
xna6
game-engine5
twitch5
chat4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Maikatura/Endorblast
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
2D MMORPG game with server & client
Contributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 11 months
gameclient-servermmorpg-gamegame-developmentmmo
Maikatura/GamerEngine
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 211 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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