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MBA

University of New York in Prague, CZ

MSc, Cybersecurity

University of York, UK

• Thesis - Behavioral Analysis on Detection of Android Botnets
• Key Modules
  • Identity, Trust, Reputation and their Applications, Cryptography Theory and Applications, Rigour in the Development of High Assurance Systems, Networks and Communications Security (Threats, Attacks and Countermeasures), Malware and Other Malfeasance

BSc (Hons), Computing

Swansea University, UK

• Thesis - Electronic Attendance - Electronic Attendance is both an ASP.NET web service and an Android mobile application, which focuses on the automatic registration of the student presence during lectures/classes.
• Key Modules
  • Software Engineering (Java, C++), RDBMS II, Distributed Systems, Experts Systems, Project Management, Data Structure, Probability & Statistics, Communication & Telematics, MIS & E-Commerce

Head, Threat Intelligence Platforms

Avast

• Direct the development, long-term strategic planning and direction of Avast's unified internal (core) & public (APKLab.io) Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) based on the needs of various stakeholders
• Delivered the core internal threat intelligence platform (TIP) used by over 200 users, including data scientists, malware/threat analysts, hunters, and operators
• Focused mainly on stakeholders' threat uses-cases, in operations, threat intelligence, big data automation, and other internal research areas. Based on each use case the team developed new innovative solutions and features
• Unified and integrated services, from other teams, in the platform focused on one common UI/UX for everyone
• Standardized the service as the core platform for everyone to build their proof-of-concept (PoC) threat services

Head, Mobile Threats & Security

Avast

• Directed the development of our mobile threat intelligence platforms (internal & public) - APKLab.io - while focusing on big regions (Russia, China, and the US). The public version is now being used by more than 500 researchers globally and almost 2M user queries were processed.
• Guided geographically dispersed teams for new solutions and projects based on the latest advanced mobile threats, security concerns and academic research, to ensure that our users (50M+) will consistently receive state-of-the-art protection.
• Coordinated and negotiated procedures for the development and tuning of systems for OEM partnerships.
• Mentored and trained junior analysts in order to make sure that the team is up-to-date, focused on latest research topics by the mobile threat & security community.
• Optimized (feature selection, training and review)mobile machine learning models in-cooperation with data scientists
• Build connections and exchanged knowledge with related companies at conferences, meet-ups.
• Published technical articles in the corporation's blog on latest mobile threats and security incidents.
• Attended NATO (CCDCOE) Cyber Coalition 2016 as a team leader and successfully completed mobile security-related exercises.
• Conducted research on an automotive security related project, successfully reporting a bug to Tesla Motors

Mobile Malware & Security Analyst

Avast

• Conducted reverse engineering, static analysis (IDA, Smali/Baksmali, JEB, JD) and dynamic analysis (Droidbox, Logcat, Wireshark, Fiddler, GikDbg) on binaries and handsets.
• Performed penetration testing and forensic analysis on handsets and smartwatches (Android)
• Developed internal solutions for faster generation of detections for mobile threats
• Created detection signatures and YARA rules for mobile threats.