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I’m Thanos. I’m from the magnificent town of Monemvasia in Greece, currenlty living in San Francisco, California.

I like programming and Computer Science in general. In my free time I like listening to music, taking photographs and cooking!

Computer Science

I hold a B.Sc. (‘09) and a M.Sc. (‘12) degree in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department (CSD) at the University of Crete (UOC), Greece. During my studies I had the opportunity to work on several research projects in the wide area of networking and distributed systems, focusing mostly on Mobile Security.

I worked as a Research Assistant (2009–2012) and R&D Engineer (2012–2015) at the Distributed Computing Systems Laboratory (DCS) of Institute of Computer Science (ICS), at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH). In 2016, I joined Appthority, a Mobile Security company in San Francisco, focusing on enterprise threat protection. While on Appthority, I worked on static and dynamic analysis of Android applications. Recently, I joined Symantec through the Appthority acquisition (2018) and I am part of the Modern OS Security team.

I have participated in the implementation and deployment of the EU-funded programs:

NECOMA (NipponEuropean Cyberdefense-Oriented Multilayer threat Analysis)
SysSec (A European Network of Excellence in Managing Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Future Internet)
WOMBAT (Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and Attack Threats)
NoAH (European Network of Affined Honeypots)

I have also participated in the following Cyber Defense exercises:

Malware-analysis competition at IWSEC 2012, in Fukuoka, Japan (My team won the Gold Prize)
2nd National Cyber Defense Exercise – Greece (Panoptis 2011)
NATO Cyber Defence Exercise 2010 (NCDEX 2010) Cyber Coalition
1st National Cyber Defense Exercise – Greece (Panoptis 2010)

My research interests include:

Network and software security
Honeypot Technologies
Mobile Security
Internet Measurements

You can take a look at my publications or download my CV.

Photography

I like taking photographs as well as watching the work of other photographers. One of my favorites is Ragnar Axelsson. I also enjoy watching photostreams on Flickr. I have found some of them that are really exciting. One is the photostream of Manolis Skantzakis aka “skantzman”. I love his perspective and the most of his photoseries especially the “Lost Childhood” one. Another one photostream I like is this of George Kamelakis. His photos are really bizzare. What I like most of his work is his fascinating portraits. I also love travel photography! One person I admire on this is Stylianos Papardelas.

I used to be a member of the Photography club of the University of Crete (FOPK). I have a photostream too (no longer maintained), you can find it here.

Music

I like listening to music. My favorite genders are stoner rock & post rock.

Some of my favorite stoner rock bands are: Queens of the Stone Age, Nightstalker, 1000mods, Spiritual Beggars, Kyuss & Clutch. Some of my favorite post rock bands are: God is an Astronaut, Explosions in the Sky, If these trees could talk, Mogwai, Russian circles, MONO & Pelican. I like greek music too. My favorite artists are Thanasis Papakonstantinou & Giannis Aggelakas.

My girlfriend plays the drums in a female stoner rock band called Solar Wind.

I like going to live concerts and reading live reviews on the net. Some times I write live reviews about concerts I went on a greek music portal, Rocking.gr.

You can read some of my live reviews on the following links:

Cooking

I love cooking! My favourite chef is David Chang, I really enjoy watching his shows (Ugly Delicious, The Mind of a Chef). I also enjoy watching documentaries and biographies of popular chefs (e.g., through the Chef’s Table show). My favorite cuisine is Japanese and my favorite dish is Ramen. In my free time I like to cook and combine recipies I find on blogs or in cooking books. I usually post photos of my dishes on Instagram.

About the Site

My website is based on Jekyll and the template is a customized version of Indigo theme by Sérgio A. Kopplin.