Mikhail Aksenov
Founder at Defbox
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Aksenov is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend development and cybersecurity, currently building Defbox—interactive labs that teach cyber-defense through hands-on scenarios. Previously a development lead and team lead, he has built SOC components from scratch, instituted SCRUM, and introduced monitoring, error tracking, and centralized logging for production security operations. A pragmatic Python developer and StackOverflow-oriented problem solver, he contributes to open-source threat-intel tooling (notably improving scripts for atomic-threat-coverage automation and reporting). Based in the UK and trained at Bauman MSTU, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with deep operational security experience, often focusing on automations that turn complex threat data into actionable analytics.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer Science, Specialist, Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Github Skills (13)
mitre-attack10
threat-intelligence10
incident-response10
att10
python10
intrusion-detection10
malware-detection10
threat-modeling9
threat-model9
automations8
automation8
yaml8
bash5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atc-project/atomic-threat-coverage
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Actionable analytics designed to combat threats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 132 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily focused on modifying Python scripts related to threat detection and analysis within the "atomic-threat-coverage" repository. The changes involved updates to the `yamls2csv.py` script, likely to improve data processing and output for threat intelligence. The user also contributed to the scripts `index_creation.py`, `populateconfluence.py`, and `populatemarkdown.py`, suggesting involvement in automation and reporting related to threat data. Additionally, the user made formatting and merge requests, indicating general maintenance and integration tasks.
threathuntinganalyticscombatthreat-modelcyber-threat-intelligence
ABK4-2/sslabs_web
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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