"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."
~John Carmack
Assistant Professor in Cyber Security (November 2022 - present)
Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Postdoc in Secure Pervasive Computing (June 2020 - present)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU Compute), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Task Leader and researcher on a funded research project: EU H2020 ASSURED “Future Proofing of ICT Trust Chains"
Working on a funded research project: Cybersecure IoT in Danish Industry (CIDI). Assisting Danish companies in strengthening security aspects of their smart products and co-supervising master student projects.
Investigating Remote Attestation protocols for single IoT devices and large IoT networks
Supervising master thesis and course projects of master students at DTU Compute
Providing academic support to DTU students with special needs
Academic Support Teacher (February 2021 - present)
Special Educational Support (SPS), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
As of now I have been providing academic support to four DTU students with special needs enrolled in "BEng Software Technology", "BSc Artificial Intelligence and Data", and "Master of Science in Information Technology".
Assisting students in prioritizing study activities, finding good study techniques, following up on weekly study plans, etc.
Making realistic study plan and following up on weekly meetings.
Teaching Assistant (September 2020 - present)
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU Compute), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Spring 2022 MSc Advanced Course: Foundations of Distributed Systems (02221)
Spring 2021 MSc Advanced Course: Foundations of Distributed Systems (02221)
Autumn 2020 MSc Specialisation Courses: Current Topics in System Security (02234)
Senior Back End Developer (November 2015 -October 2016)
Landmark Communications, Tirana, Albania in Partnership with Edcoms Ltd, London, England
Designed and implemented new large-scale e-learning CMS products on various frameworks: Symfony, Laravel, NodeJS.
Designed and developed of REST API interfaces which enabled the integration among different e-learning CMS products.
Assisted on the architectural choices for enabling scalability of applications that comprised a large number of users running simultaneously.
Built new modules for integrating our products with third-party platforms such as Moodle, Zencoder, Amazon S3, etc.
Deployed and maintain websites, in the test and live environments using continuous integration tools: Git, Jenkins, Bamboo
Technical Project Manager and CRM Developer (November 2010 – October 2015)
OpenCubed sh.p.k, Tirana, Albania
Proposed and managed a novel CRM project which automated the business process of our clients. This project brought an impact in the internal collaboration of the different sectors in our company and shifted our business model.
Managed and developed a CRM project which automated 80\% of the daily trivial tasks of our System Analysts and Software Developers.
Created solid software implementations and APIs for CRM systems, which improved the experience of our customers on monitoring and managing their essential business services.
Implemented new features in PHP/MySQL for vTiger CRM and coreBOS CRM, and enhanced CRM systems with new modules and extensions to improve the CRM processes.
Team Leader of challenging projects: Vtiger offline, Vtiger Import, Social CRM etc..
JSP Developer Internship (June 2010 – September 2010)
LAB13 Srl, Tirana, Albania
Produced the technical and database analysis of an existing application on "Billing and Invoicing Management Software".
Provided the documentation and technical solution for building a new web platform project on managing invoices.
Software developer in JSP and Struts framework.
Programming Languages: PHP, Python, Java, JSP, C++
Formating/Scripting Languages: HTML /CSS, XML, JS, XSL, JSON
Frameworks: PyQT, Symfony, Laravel, NodeJS, Struts, Smarty, jQuery
Webservices: RESTful, SOAP
Automated Deployments: SaltStack, Kubernetes, Docker
Software systems: VTiger CRM, coreBOS CRM, Wikimedia, Moodle
Project management: Jira, Assembla
Continuous integration tools: Jenkins, Bamboo
Databases: MySQL, POSTGRESQL
API Integrations: Amazon S3, Plivo, SendGrid, DialApplet, PIWIK, Zencoder
Version Controls: SVN, GIT