About

Hello, who am I?

Security engineering, practical guidance, and a clear focus on helping founders, teams, and individuals build secure systems.

12+ years AppSec Cloud Training

My name is Dmitry,

Nice to meet you! :)

I have been working in IT with a focus on cyber security for more than 12 years. My main interest has always been helping individuals, startups, and companies build secure products and services.

In the past, I worked in multiple companies doing game/mobile development, application security assessments, cloud defense, digital forensics and incident response, conference talks, and security trainings.

Now I focus more on AI + Security: securing LLM applications, building n8n automation pipelines for security operations, and improving detection and response workflows.

I have participated in multiple security competitions, studied BS Computer Science, and completed OSCP certification.

While I am not working, learning, reading, and securing something, I like sport activities such as frisbee and cycling.

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award iconSecurity Awards

  • National Cyber League (Facebook) - 1st place silver
  • National Cyber League (Facebook) - 1st place bronze
  • National Cyber League Team Competition

award iconEducation

  • Offensive Security Certified Professional
  • Datacamp
  • Adevinta Product Academy
  • BS SNHU Computer Science

award iconMembership

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Experience

Cyber Security Advocate

  1. Consulting individuals and startups to assist their security journey
  2. Helping individuals to better understand security and security practices

Security Software Engineer

Adevinta  2019-...
  1. Work on security challenges for threat detection, incident handling, infrastructure monitoring and cloud security.
  2. Developed and secure cloud infrastructure to monitor activity across different marketplaces from 16 countries with billions of unique visitors per month.
  3. Organized several internal training classes and workshops about Digital Forensics and Incident Response
  4. Member of security incident response team

Security C/C++ and Python Software Engineer

VideoQ Inc, May 2015 – June 2018
  1. Implemented front-end and back-end encryptions solutions
  2. Do fuzzing and security assessment of the product components: (binaries and libraries)
  3. Organized several internal training courses and workshops about cyber security
  4. Developed cloud infrastructure to monitor security activity across different marketplaces from 16 countries with 1.5 billion unique visitors per month with AWS, Sumologic, K8S

Software Engineer

AboardStudio,January 2011 – June 2014
  1. Python and Cyber Security Tutor
  2. Developed several mobile games for iOS & Android using Monkey Programming Language for customers
  3. Created cross-platform modules for secure content delivery for Monkey using C, C++, Java, C#, Action Script, and JavaScript
  4. Worked with TCP and UDP network stack. Developed server for the game in C language

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE & PERSONAL PROJECTS

  1. Worked and programmed for ARM (CORTEX M3 and M4 series) micro-controllers (Texas Instruments, STM32) and Xtensa micro-controller (ESP8266, ESP32) in C language
  2. Worked with Wifi software stack in ESP8266 and ESP32
  3. Beta tested ESP32 processor, which was later adopted by companies like Microsoft, Intel, and AdaFruit

Certificates & Awards