Panos Sakkos
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
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
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering and Distributed Systems, Master's Degree Software Engineering and Distributed Systems at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Github contributions (5)
le4ker/blog
Jun 2015 - Jun 2026
My blog, built using the { Personal } Jekyll Theme
Contributions:6 PRs, 872 pushes, 45 branches in 11 years 1 month
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dono-app/dono-ios
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 151 pushes, 32 branches in 9 months
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