IT Weekend Lviv: Research & Security

Principal Technologist at SoftServe

Oleksandr Sukholeyster

With over 15 years in IT industry, Oleksandr focuses on development of new competencies and technologies such as Application Audit, Usability and UX, Enterprise Architecture, Security, IoT, Robotics. Starting 2008, leads research teams and provides technology consulting as Principal Technologist. During IT Weekend Lviv, Oleksandr will speak about modern biometric authentication tech (ecg/ekg, bio-impedance, face) from real R&D experience. Participant of the conferences

Quality Control Team Leader at SoftServe

Roman Ostap

Automation/Manual QA team leader with over 8 years of experience in IT sphere. By annual results in March 2017 got Top Performer award from Software Development Office. While last 5 years in parallel with leading QA teams, developing automation frameworks, business analysis and providing consulting and training services on multiple projects, actively works on security analytics. Contributed as speaker in Security Hole events, OWASP Ukraine Meetup and Mobile Development Day.

CEO at Raccoon.world

Lana Malovana

Director of Research at Ultrahaptics

Orestis Georgiou

Orestis is researcher and an author of over 60 publications in the areas of Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, and Medicine. As Director of Research at Ultrahaptics, he leads all internal and external research activities of the company. This includes coordinating the Advanced Research Cluster team (aka the ARC), co-supervising 4 PhD students, and growing and supporting a scientific collaboration network of 50+ Universities and Research Labs around the world with the aim to expand, explore and enhance mid-air haptic technologies and their applications.

VR/AR Engineer at SoftServe

Semen Frish

As any technology is based on core knowledge, Semen acquired un doubtful proficiency in Maths, Physics, Computer Science and Engineering. He is one of the first Ukrainian flash developers, UAFPUG keynote speaker and host, speaker at such events as FlashGAMM, Lviv GameDev and GameMixer, contributor to Gamasutra. In the role of a game developer/programmer, game designer, tech lead, R&D manager and project manager/producer, Semen has built a lot of games from pencils to pixels. He developed his first game for ZX Spectrum console at the age of 12. Now he is recounting 10+ years of experience in gamedev (mostly cross-platform on Flash / Flex / AIR, JavaScript, Unity3D / C#, Unreal Engine / C++). Eagerly waiting for Virtual Reality era to come since 1997 VX-1 Helmet and Descent 2 game, Semen is working on VR R&D projects to help Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality to take leading positions. His technology related highlights include demos for Oculus Rift on PC, Google Cardboard on iOS and Samsung GearVR on Android with Unity C# and Unreal Engine C++ for Oculus Rift, as well as work on AAA game for VR. VR/AR/MR goes xR and we are digging on it.

Research Engineer at SoftServe

Mykola Maksymenko

Before joining SoftServe Mykola Maksymenko worked as a researcher in the top institutions of Germany and Israel (Max-Planck Society and Weizmann Institute of Science). He holds PhD in theoretical physics and published more than a dozen research papers in quantum and statistical physics, which span the fields from infection propagation in social networks to design of novel quantum states and magnetic materials. At SoftServe Mykola pushes the limits in some of the most complex real-world problems utilizing deep research skills and expertise in Machine Learning, signal processing, and information theory.

Director of Operations, Berezha Security

Vlad Styran

Влад є всесвітньо відомим експертом у галузі Information Security з понад 10+ років досвіду у Penetration Testing, Security Audit та Consulting. На даний момент на ряду з іншими сертифікаціями, Влад володіє сертифікатами OSCP, CISSP та CISA, крім того є сертифікованим C|EH, ISO27001LA.  Влад часто виступає на InfoSec конференціях з доповідями про загрози Social Engineering  та методи і техніки Penetration Testing. У компанії Berezha Влад відповідає за управління ресурсами та надання високоякісних security послуг.

Security Consultant Lead, SoftServe

Nazar Tymoshyk

Nazar Tymoshyk  is a cyber security researcher and writer passionate about Cloud, Web 2.0, Application and IoT Security, Honeypots, Virtual Machine Introspection (his Ph.D. topic) and exploit analysis. Nazar specializes in many security disciplines including IT Management, Penetration Testing, computer forensics, malware analysis, intrusion detection/prevention, and mobile/cloud application security. He is currently leading a top notch highly skilled cyber security team at SoftServe in Lviv (Ukraine). His team execute between 30-40 security attacking/defending and implementation projects annually. Nazar helping with Architecting security products for ISV, retail and healthcare companies making their products actually secure by design, PII/PCI/PHI data, intellectual property and business protected. Nazar also evangelize and setup Security Assurance programs and processes in top US based healthcare and finance companies based on Microsoft SDLC and OWASP SAMM methodology. He and his team helped biggest german automotive company to identify and mitigate critical security defects in IoT connected-car eco-system and safe car owners from remote attacks similar seen in Jeep case.