Zsombor Kovacs
Chief Technology Officer at MRG Effitas
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolZsombor Kovacs is a seasoned security leader and hands-on penetration tester with roughly 15 years of practical experience across application, infrastructure and mobile security, now serving as CTO at MRG Effitas. He has led and performed malware research (notably Android 360 testing), incident response, reversing and forensic engineering while running security teams and delivering client-facing reports and trainings across telecom, banking, government and industry. Known for fieldwork and unconventional engagements—from RF antenna hunts to social engineering stunts—he blends adventurous, real-world testing experience with rigorous research and secure-coding education. He regularly builds simulators, collects in-the-wild samples and creates training curricula for mobile secure coding and advanced Burp Suite use. A tinkerer and lockpicker by hobby, he brings both strategic leadership and gritty operational expertise to protect corporate endpoints and mobile ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc IT Security, MSc IT Security at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsSOCRATES/ERASMUS program, SOCRATES/ERASMUS program at Helsinki University of Technology
Github Skills (13)
frida10
vala10
instrumentation10
gnu9
reverse-engineering9
radare28
wireless8
gnuradio8
cybersecurity6
python6
dac6
communications5
ecosystem4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
defdeveu/certPinningDemo
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
huobb0/NetworkSecurityConfigDemo
May 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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