Damianos Stefanos Vonapartis, but everyone calls me Damian.
QA Engineer.
Malaga, Spain.
Mushroom Garlic Pizza (don't be stingy on the mushrooms; keep them coming!)
I can't pick one track, but I can pick an album. System of a Down: Toxicity - my favourite! Honestly, I think the '00s were the last time people really listened to entire albums. Spotify has changed that now, right?
Have I travelled! Well, quite a bit. I recently just got back from Galicia, and have visited many villages on the western coast. And of course, the beautiful Santiago de Compostela.
When I am in the office, I start my day with a 'cafe con leche' and fill up with some breakfast from the Spark kitchen. Almost immediately, this is followed up by the daily standup with one of Spark's current customers.
The rest of my day can be anything from creating test plans, implementing agreed-upon tests, doing heavy research, and using AWS services to assist my team with QA. Also, some additional meetings to determine if any critical changes are needed in the project. My day-to-day also occasionally includes lunch with my coworkers and, of course, documenting my hours.
Well, I’ve been working on some side projects. I’m also watching 'Manhunt: Unabomber' and 'Mindhunters' on Netflix.
I am currently developing a directory enumeration tool using python. It is meant to be the spiritual successor to the classic 'dirbuster' and a competitor to 'gobuster'.
These tools are at a high level very similar. They allow you to use HTTP verbs (Especially GET) to GET the subdirectories of almost any webpage given a URL/URI (https://www.mywebsite.com/) and a wordlist [robots.txt, drivers, old, admin etc].
The program automates the concatenation of the URL/URI with the words in the wordlist, attempts to access each generated URL (ie, https://www.mywebsite.com/robots.txt), and returns the status code of each response. It also scales using multithreading. This is especially useful when considering that a big corporation would want to test 50000 possible URLs. No one should have to do this manually with a browser. This program would allow you to do this in under 5 minutes.
It's good. I enjoy the freedom of coming into the office any day I want. It is a freedom I appreciate greatly. I think Spark is the first company I work for that puts its money where its mouth is and follows through on work-life balance improvements.
Offensive Security Researcher.
I think it has found a really snug niche. Spark specialises in data-oriented projects/platforms due to the expertise the team offers, yes. But I think it is also effective due to the team's AWS skills. It gives us that extra edge.
Slack. But I am more of an E2EE messenger guy (Signal, Session etc.).
The Greek government's illegal wiretapping of opposition party members.
It's good. I enjoy the freedom of coming into the office any day I want. It is a freedom I appreciate greatly. I think Spark is the first company I work for that puts its money where its mouth is and follows through on work-life balance improvements.
Ambitious!