Panos Sakkos is an engineering leader at Databricks with 15 years of experience across research, cybersecurity, and engineering leadership. He has worked on security research at CERN and security engineering for Microsoft Office 365, and founded Blocktopus, a KYC/AML startup. He holds patents, has published research in security and machine learning, and has helped startups scale from pre-seed through Series B. On his blog, he writes about security leadership and developer productivity.
Opinions expressed here are my ownA couple of months ago I wrote about my Neovim configuration and how CodeCompanion brings AI assistance into the editor. Back then, it was wired directly to the Anthropic API — you set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, point CodeCompanion at a model, and you’re done. Simple enough. But then my team started building and adopting Claude Code Skills for our day-to-day workflows, and I realized I was missing them every time I dropped into Neovim. The problem with a direct API adapter When CodeCompanion talks to the Anthropic API directly, it is its own agent: it manages its own tool loop, decides which tools to call, and handles approvals. That works, but it means you end up with a config that looks like this: strategies = { chat = { adapter…
Member of Technical Staff @ Databricks
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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