About
About Me
I am a Security Engineer, Researcher, and Applied Scientist completing a PhD in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, advised by Dr. Michalis Polychronakis. I bring first-author publications at NDSS and IEEE EuroS&P plus six years of pre-PhD offensive-security industry experience across national-scale financial infrastructure — spanning cloud and platform security, Kubernetes hardening, secrets management, static analysis, and penetration testing.
My research produces production-grade security systems evaluated across thousands of real-world applications. I designed and built LeakLess (NDSS 2025), KubeKeeper (EuroS&P 2025), LeakChain, and Confine — each combining systems research with large-scale empirical evaluation. I am a Catacosinos Fellow and Internet Society NDSS Fellow (both 2025).
Before my PhD, I was Head of Software Security at Sadad Electronic Payment Company, leading threat modeling, architecture reviews, and penetration testing for a national-scale banking ecosystem — manually exploiting XSS, SQL injection, SSRF, IDOR, authentication bypass, and RCE vulnerabilities in production financial infrastructure.
I am seeking roles in Security Engineering, Security Research, or Applied Scientist positions — with a focus on cloud security, platform security, security tooling, and applied security research. Green Card Holder.