Stavros Mekesis
Lead Security Engineer at Infiterra
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolStavros Mekesis is a Lead Security Engineer based in Greece with 11 years of hands-on experience covering application, infrastructure, and research-driven security. He currently oversees the full security landscape at Infiterra, reporting to executive leadership and driving strategy, policies, and day-to-day operations. His background includes uncovering and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, integrating DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/SCA) into CI/CD, and conducting deep source-code audits across diverse tech stacks. Stavros combines academic rigor—a PhD in Cryptography and top MSc results—with practical offensive experience from roles at SBA Research, the Hellenic Army, and as an independent penetration tester. He’s comfortable shifting between exploit development, threat modeling, and embedding automated security controls, and has published collaborative research with NIST on combinatorial security testing. Colleagues describe him as a technically deep operator who turns complex security research into pragmatic protections for production systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Logic and Computation, Master's degree, Logic and Computation at Vienna University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cryptography at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (6)
regression10
bayesian10
bitcoin9
python1
python-scripts1
crypto1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stavros0/bitcoin-price-prediction
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Bayesian regression for latent source model and Bitcoin
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 3 years 7 months
regressionbayesian-regressionbitcoinlatentbayesian
stavros0/RE-covid-free-gr
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 push in 4 months
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