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by dionyziz 4194 days ago
- Finished a software engineer in product security internship at Twitter.

- Ran a security class [0] in Greece.

- Presented my master thesis on decentralized transaction identity and trust [1] for my Electrical and Computer Engineering degree, but didn't complete the degree yet.

- Talked about BREACH [2] at the SFHMMY [3] and FOSSCOMM [4] conferences.

- Did a talk about computer security at a local community high school.

- Attended FOSDEM [5]

- Invented an anonymous decentralized marketplace system [6] and joined the OpenBazaar [7] team as a core developer.

- Traveled to the Turkey (Istanbul), Greece (Alexandroupolis, Ioannina, Athens, Ikaria, Thessaloniki, Lamia, Corfu, Drama, Komotini), Austria (Salzburg, Vienna), UK (London), Belgium (Brussels).

- Hiked through the Vikos Gorge, the Astraka Refuge and Drakolimni in Greece. Sailed in Preveza and in the Saronic Gulf in Greece [8]. Snowboarded in Zell am See in Austria.

- Tried two different interesting mind-altering chemical substances.

- Spent quite a long and nice time with friends, family, and lovers often doing nothing at all with them.

- Bungee jumped for the second time in my life, this time in Corinth and double the height (78m) of my previous jump.

- Got hired as a full-time software engineer at Google.

- Moved from San Francisco, US to Zurich, Switzerland.

- Started my private pilot license.

- Taught math, physics, programming, algorithms, web development, and security to many students privately for free.

- Donated more money than any other year in my life to charity.

- Started learning guitar.

- Lived in a share-house for the first time.

- Learned many things about security and software engineering, realized I'm a noob in so many things and fields and I want to improve a lot!

[0] http://security-class.gr/

[1] https://gist.github.com/dionyziz/e3b296861175e0ebea4b

[2] http://breachattack.com/

[3] http://www.sfhmmy.gr/

[4] http://lamia.fosscomm.gr/

[5] https://fosdem.org/2014/

[6] https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2014-M...

[7] https://openbazaar.org/

[8] https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?hl=en&authuser=0&mi...