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Panos Sakkos

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Director of Engineering at Panther
📍 Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece

Panos is a Director of Engineering at Panther with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and engineering leadership. His career includes security research at CERN and security engineering at Microsoft. He holds a Masters degree from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and has multiple patents.

Outside of work, Panos is passionate about developer productivity and tools, writing extensively on his personal blog about his journey with the Neovim editor. He enjoys hands-on coding projects to explore new technologies.

He founded Blocktopus, a startup that built a Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solution for Ethereum smart contracts.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece
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Engineering Leadership
Writes about team development frameworks like Tuckman's model and has experience scaling engineering organizations from pre-seed through Series B.
Cybersecurity Research
His background includes security research at CERN, security engineering for Microsoft Office 365, and patents related to data access security.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Director of Engineering
Panther
11-2023 - 12-2025
Senior Engineering Manager
Panther
10-2022 - 10-2023
Engineering Manager
Panther
6-2021 - 9-2022
Engineering Manager, Ingestion
Orfium
6-2020 - 5-2021
Tech Lead, Payments
Plum Fintech
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Education
10-2012 - 9-2014
Master's Degree
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
10-2007 - 3-2012
4 years Bachelor of Science
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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