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Forming a vision for innovative products and platforms, setting the strategy and executing it through product roadmap and prioritized backlogs with the product management team.Executing AI-augmented XDR (Extended Detection and Response) products strategy that combines platform, products, and services into a subscription offering..Strategic leadership of a high-performing product management team. Providing guidance, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to team members. Fostering a collaborative culture that encourages innovation, creativity, and accountability by empowering people for decision making.Collaborating with key stakeholders, including executive leadership, internal teams, customers and partners to define product requirements and prioritize features to deliver value to both the users and the business. Speaking publicly on security, products, technologies, threat intelligence, machine learning & AI on international security and business events, often among top-rated speakers.Building strong relationships with key customers and partners, soliciting feedback to understand their pain points. Gathering product requirements and identifying opportunities for product enhancements. Using customer insights to drive continuous improvement and customer-centric product development.Interactions leading to improving positioning in analysts reports (Gartner, Forrester and others) by briefings, presentations and product demos.Monitoring key product KPIs in Consumer, SMB and Enterprise segments.Identifying and processing customer requirements through qualitative or quantitative customer research for informed decision-making.Delivering a comprehensive product roadmap that reflects customer needs, business needs, competitive landscape, technological and security trends.

Leading multiple teams responsible for development of core technologies for detection of malware, ransomware, exploits, phishing and threat indicators.Leading teams responsible for attack surface reduction (HIPS, exploit prevention, device control, browser isolation), content scanning and feature engineering (files, memory, registry, firmware, network protocols), discovery of vulnerabilities (fuzzing), Cloud backend services (Big Data, reputation systems, machine learning classification and anomaly detection), in-product sandboxing (x86/x64 emulation).Initiated and later succesfully delivered EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) security product.Working closely with Chief Research Officer and Malware Research teams to define requirements for technologies needed for malware classification and attack surface reduction.Working closely with the Product Management team to reflect customer and security needs through the technology portfolio.Created the base of the first ESET Machine Learning pipeline for fully automated malware processing and classification, that is still in use (Python, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, NoSQL).Evangelism of ESET technologies internally and externally.

Branch Office management responsibilities:Created the new branch office from starting legal entity to time when it had more than 50 employees. Hired software engineers, reverse engineers and built R&D organizational structure.Fulfilled office management and administrative executive role, gained expertise in office management responsibilities, systems and procedures.Managed office budget, payroll and financial reporting.Collaborated and negotiated with finance, accounting, HR, legal, IT, procurement, service providers, recruitment agencies and other teams to ensure proper office operations.Facilitated creation of award-winning office space. The design later inspired other regional offices of ESET.R&D lead responsibilities:Achieved a well-functioning team of software engineers and security analysts working together to deliver Endpoint Protection technologies.Directed and oversaw the software engineering function in developing, releasing, and maintaining of software components.Managed team leaders developing core technologies related to antivirus engine content scanning, static and dynamic analysis, unpacking and deobfuscation, behavioural detections, internal tools for malware analysis and classification..Supported regional sales channels and marketing teams with products, technology and security expertise.Speaker on local security conferences and internal events.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Main responsibility: development of anti-malware scanning engine (feature extraction, software emulation x86, heuristics) - C++, AssemblyCreation of user-facing tools like ESET SysInspector (forensics tool easy to use security tool that combines a snapshot of the system with auto-start scanner, C++, WinAPI, MFC.) or Online Scanner (C++, ActiveX)

Leading team responsible for unpacking, deobfuscation and code emulation of malware.Refactored monolithic scanning engine architecture to a system of easily extendable plugins.Created an unique and successful hiring program for reverse engineers and software engineers.Represented company in WildList Organization International.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Member of the antivirus engine development team.Developing components of Antivirus product for MS-DOS, Windows and Linux, C++Analysis of computer viruses for MS-DOS, Windows and LinuxWriting internal tools to help with virus analysis

Master Of Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Software Engineering