PANAGIOTIS ZERMPINOS
Technical Operations Engineer | Cybersecurity
Kept critical law enforcement infrastructure running nationwide for 3+ years: 50+ forensic instruments, a €3M project, and 99.5% uptime across Greece. Now bringing that operational discipline into cybersecurity and IT operations.
Impact
Experience
Application & Technical Support Engineer
End-to-end technical operations for a ~€3M national law enforcement project and biomedical systems across Greece.
- Critical Infrastructure: Sole technical owner of 50+ criminal photography instruments nationwide, maintaining 99.5% uptime with same-day incident response
- L1/L2 Support: Rapid triage and resolution for security-critical systems in law enforcement environments
- Security & Compliance: Owned Anti-Bribery Policy and maintained multi-ISO standard compliance (ISO 27001, 9001, 13485)
- Hardware & Logistics: Hardware lifecycle management and logistics coordination for nationwide field deployments; vendor sourcing and procurement
- Client Relations: Primary technical liaison for law enforcement clients and dealer partners; trained 250+ police officers on forensic instrumentation; prepared product collateral and provided pre-sales support
Mechanical Engineer, External Partner
Office-based investigation of electricity theft cases across Greece's national distribution network. Processed around 20 cases per day (roughly 3x the team average) in an 8-person team, identifying theft sources and losses across residential and commercial accounts.
Electrical Systems Technician
Executed UPS, PV, and electrical automation installations across 9 industry verticals (Defense, Maritime, Healthcare, Energy, Telecom and more) under ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 compliance. Delivered projects for enterprise clients including Cisco and Cordia in a 5-person team reporting directly to CTO.
Technical Skills
Cybersecurity & Forensics
IT Operations & Support
Development & Automation
Quality & Compliance
Education
Integrated Master's in Mechanical Engineering
Five-year integrated master's programme covering mechanical systems, thermodynamics, energy engineering, and applied data analysis.
Thesis: Energy performance evaluation of solar-assisted heat pump with photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collectors for residential dwellings in Greece. Combined TRNSYS thermal simulation with MATLAB data analysis to model and optimise system configurations across Greek climate zones.
Projects & Learning
Network-Wide Ad Blocking & Privacy Protection
APR 2026 - PRESENT
Docker-based Pi-hole infrastructure with DHCP auto-routing, 4 curated blocklists, and 6 device-specific security policies, protecting 5+ devices from 350k+ malicious domains (ads, trackers, malware, phishing) with zero per-device configuration.
Armani Katehano Club Platform
MAR 2026 - PRESENT
Full-stack web application for a competitive basketball club in active play. The public dashboard tracks 13 players across PPG, RPG, APG, and efficiency ratings, with live game results, standings, season-vs-all-time toggles, and a team leaderboard. Backed by a multi-portal architecture: an admin portal for full CRUD data management and a coach portal for roster announcements and match email distribution.
Boot.dev: Back-end Developer Path
JUN 2026 - PRESENT
Structured 22-module backend curriculum progressing through Python, Go, SQL, Docker, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Currently in the Python fundamentals module.
Personal Linux Security & Hardening
MAR 2025 - PRESENT
Daily-drives Linux as primary OS with regular Lynis security audits. Applied hardening practices to personal and friends' machines, covering common attack surfaces and misconfigurations.
HackTheBox: Penetration Testing Labs
FEB 2025 - PRESENT
Working through HackTheBox machines and challenges to develop practical offensive security skills. Focused on privilege escalation, enumeration, and vulnerability exploitation.
Advent of Code 2024 & 2025
DEC 2024, DEC 2025
Annual algorithmic programming challenge solved in Python. 9 days in 2024, 8 days in 2025. Covers graph traversal, dynamic programming, parsing, and optimisation.
100 Days of Code: Python Bootcamp
MAY 2023 - JUL 2023
Intensive Python programming course covering automation, scripting, APIs, data processing, and machine learning with PyTorch. Applied to real-world scenarios including system automation tasks.
Get In Touch
Open to roles in cybersecurity, IT operations, and technical support. If you're looking for someone who bridges engineering precision with security operations, let's talk.