Panos is an engineering leader at Panther, with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and engineering leadership. His career includes security research at CERN, security engineering at Microsoft Office 365, and founding Blocktopus, a KYC/AML startup. He holds patents, has published research in security and machine learning, and has helped scale startups from pre-seed through Series B. On this blog, he writes about security, leadership, and developer productivity.
Opinions expressed here are my ownIt started with a single Claude Project. A few instructions, a couple of artifacts — manageable. Then I added context about my keyboard build. Then my guitar setup. Then my diving gear. Then I started journaling in there, using Claude artifacts as a scratchpad for things I wanted to remember. The instructions file grew. The artifacts multiplied. I’d open the project and scroll for seconds just to remember where I left off. Eventually I had nine Claude Projects for different slices of my life, cross-referencing each other through notes I copied back and forth manually. And none of it touched my Kindle highlights, my browser bookmarks, or the handwritten diving logbooks sitting on the shelf. This is what personal knowledge management (PKM) actually looks like in practice. My…
Director of Engineering @ Panther
Engineering Manager, Ingestion @ Orfium
Tech Lead, Payments @ Plum Fintech
Founder & CTO @ Blocktopus
Security Software Engineer @ Microsoft Office 365
Computer Security Researcher, Linux Kernel Hardening @ CERN
Built Pwn Mail, a Cydia iPhone app for spoofing emails. It served more than 260,000 emails but it was discontinued after a legal threat by Steve Jobs
Machine Learning researcher @ KDD lab
Master studies @ Department of Informatics and Telecommunications on Software Engineering
Bachelor studies @ Department of Informatics and Telecommunications on Computer Science and Telecomunications
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