Panos Sakkos
Director Of Engineering at Blocktopus
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolPanos Sakkos is a cybersecurity-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling secure, data-intensive systems across startups and enterprise teams. Currently Director of Engineering at Panther, he has led multidisciplinary ingestion and threat-research teams, driven cost and infrastructure optimizations, and overseen Panther’s built-in detection capabilities. His background spans security research at CERN, security engineering at Microsoft Office 365 (with patents in distributed systems and access control), and founding a KYC/AML startup that shipped a plug-and-play Ethereum product and served paying customers. An active researcher with publications in ML and security, he also writes about security, leadership, and developer productivity and brings a rare blend of academic rigor and hands-on startup execution. Based in Athens, he combines product-minded technical leadership with a track record of taking teams from pre-seed to Series B.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Technology of Computational Systems, Master's Degree Technology of Computational Systems at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Github Skills (200)
firmware10
rsa10
vim10
utterances10
nvim10
swiftui10
aes-gcm10
apple-watch10
atmel10
policies10
aes10
watchos10
touchbar10
liquid10
python10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dono-app/dono-ios
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 151 pushes, 32 branches in 9 months
swiftiosiphoneios-app
Blocktopus/public-wikis
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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