🐍 Python Developer, OOP Instructor & Aspiring Cybersecurity/GRC Analyst
I create educational content on programming, electronics, and maker projects. I have 13+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. Right now I'm transitioning into cybersecurity and information security governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). I'm building hands-on skills in network security, incident analysis, and security frameworks, while I keep teaching and building.
Okay, real talk: my cybersecurity origin story starts in ancient Sparta.
I grew up in Sparta, and Spartans were doing cryptography a very long time before it was cool. There's this thing called a scytale, basically a wooden stick ancient Spartan generals used to scramble secret military messages so they looked like nonsense to anyone without the matching stick. As a kid, learning that people were hiding secrets in plain sight thousands of years ago genuinely blew my mind. I didn't know it yet, but that was the moment.
That curiosity never really left. It just went quiet for a while, buried under a computer science degree, a master's thesis where I built encryption into actual hardware, some time doing secure military communications, and 13+ years of building software and teaching people how to code. Cybersecurity was always the thing humming in the background. Now I'm finally chasing it properly. One step at a time. It feels less like starting something new and more like coming home.
- Completed the Google Cybersecurity Certificate
- Currently studying for CompTIA Security+ and working toward TryHackMe's SOC Level 1 (SAL1) certification
- Completed Deloitte Australia's Cyber Job Simulation (log analysis and incident investigation)
- Ranked in the top 2% of all TryHackMe users worldwide, and top 250 in Greece — view profile
- Building a home security lab with Kali Linux and Wireshark
- Background: MSc in Advanced Computer Systems (Embedded Systems). Thesis on cryptographic hardware implementation in FPGA
Build a Living Cell Ecosystem from Scratch
I created this course to teach OOP principles through hands-on project work in just 3.5 hours. Encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and design patterns, all through practical application.
✨ What you'll build:
- A fully interactive cellular ecosystem simulation
- Real-world implementation of OOP design patterns
- Modular, scalable code architecture
- educ8s.tv. Electronics, Arduino, and Maker Projects
- Programming With Nick. Programming Tutorials & Courses
Languages:
- Python | C/C++ | Kotlin | C#
Platforms & Tools:
- Arduino | Android Development | SQLite | FPGA/Embedded Systems
Currently Learning:
- Network Security | Wireshark | Kali Linux | ISO 27001 | NIST CSF
Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate on projects, talk cybersecurity, or just chat about technology!
⭐️ From educ8s