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My name is Gergely (Geri) Revay and I’ve been working in IT security for quite a few years now. Currently I’m a penetration tester for a German consulting company.
I started studying IT in elementary school. Later I went to a technical high school where I specialized in IT. Hence my very first programming and administration knowledge come from that time. Another important thing in my teenage years was that I attended the local student drama club. It was a lot of fun and also very useful if one has to present in front of an audience like I do.
When I was 18 I started my university studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics which is a great University and I’m sure that it played an important part in what I have become and where I’m right now.
In third year I was really eager to see a bit more from the awesome world so I went to Oslo, Norway and I spent an extremely interesting and unforgettable semester there as an exchange student at Høgskolen i Oslo which is now called Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus. The most important lesson I learnt was that I love to be in an international environment and that eventually I’m a good communicator which I hadn’t thought before.
After returning to Hungary I started to work as a development trainee at Telenor Hungary. When my boss told me that I should install Linux at home as well because I was going to need it, I took his advice and hence the fun began. The company was an interesting place too, I got insight into the service provider world, learnt how MMS works and started to use php, perl, shell script etc.
I was looking for opportunities to go abroad again, and I did. That time I went to Glasgow, UK where I worked for BT as a call centre advisor in sales. Although not working in my own professional field, it was an important experience of my life. First of all since then I cannot be mad at any call centre advisor however stupid and slow they are because probably it’s just not their fault. Secondly I learned how to handle difficult people on the phone . Also one sales training in a lifetime is good for everybody, just to know how the world goes. Last but not least I got to know some of the weirdest English accents.
When I returned to Hungary after 5 months I specialized in information and network security at the university and started working for Balabit IT Security as a quality assurance engineer. I had a chance to see this development company to grow from 40 people to 150. As the company grew my job changed quite a bit. At the beginning I worked on all products from syslog-ng to Zorp firewall with their customized Linux OS called ZorpOS. I was a Test team leader for a while before the company introduced the SCRUM development methodology which is a great stuff in my opinion. I saw how individual developers and testers slowly developed to become an efficient team and worked side-by-side without any typical QA vs. developer problems, how they learned to focus on the common target of building a quality product. At the end I worked with my team on the linux based appliance called syslog-ng Store Box. It was really interesting to work with such a complex system that included linux, SAN, hardware, php, python, C, javascript, syslog, aufs etc.
Currently I work as a penetration tester digging into security as deep as I can. I also do some research when I have time.
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