Mateusz Zych
Head Of Innovation
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMateusz Zych is a cybersecurity researcher and Head of Innovation based in Oslo with nine years of experience bridging academic research, standards work, and hands-on engineering. He leads R&D at Cyentific and serves as Chief Architect at Automaton Technologies while pursuing a PhD at the University of Oslo focused on cyber threat intelligence, neuro-symbolic AI, and knowledge representation. Mateusz is an influential standards contributor (OASIS CACAO, TAC, STIX/TAXII) and has supported ENISA and EU-funded projects aligning technical solutions with NIS2, DORA and other policy frameworks. He combines a practical background in IT consulting and frontend development with a research-driven approach to automation, observability and collective defense. As a teacher and external examiner, he actively shapes the next generation of CTI practitioners and often works on making threat intelligence machine-actionable across organizational boundaries. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex ontologies and AI concepts into operational playbooks and deployable automation for critical infrastructure defenders.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Value-based leadership, Value-based leadership at VID vitenskapelige høgskoleComputer Engineering and Management, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, B, Computer Engineering and Management, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, B at OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet
Norwegian, Polish, English
Github Skills (19)
validating10
oasis10
json-schema9
cybersecurity9
nuxt-module9
readable8
mdc8
security8
tac8
json8
markdown8
cms7
nuxt7
vue7
automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencybersecurityalliance/cacao-roaster
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
A web application for generating, parsing and validating, manipulating, and visualizing CACAO v2.0 playbooks.
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
automationcacaocacao-playbookscybersecurityoasis
cyentific-rni/SAG
May 2021 - May 2022
An elevated STIX representation of the MITRE ATT&CK Groups knowledge base
Contributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year
groupsrepresentationstixknowledgeknowledge-base
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