Sławomir Babicz

Experience

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Ten years across global SOC operations, Swiss banking and Web3. I run incidents end to end, build SIEM and detection platforms, and lately put AI agents to work on phishing and alert triage.

career

  1. DFINITY Foundation

    2022 – 2026

    Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer · Zürich, Switzerland

    • Responded to security incidents end-to-end, including forensic analysis, postmortems, and stakeholder presentations.
    • Designed and built a technically deep Elastic SIEM platform with custom detection rules covering a wide range of applications and threat vectors.
    • Deployed AI agents for phishing classification and for SIEM alert throttling and triage.
    • Maintained IAM permissions and access control for AWS infrastructure, including Okta (SAML) integrations, and contributed to release-pipeline hardening.
  2. Credit Suisse (contractor via iET SA)

    2021 – 2022

    Security Engineer · Zürich, Switzerland

    • Designed and implemented end-to-end technical solutions for security and business use cases using Splunk and commercial UEBA tools.
    • Built parsers, data models, correlation rules, Splunk searches, and dashboards.
  3. ISPIN AG

    2018 – 2021

    Professional Threat Responder · Bassersdorf, Zürich area, Switzerland

    • Built a threat intelligence platform gathering, processing, and correlating TI data for distribution into SIEM/EDR solutions.
    • Built and maintained high-throughput Elasticsearch clusters (40+ nodes, 50 TB+ bare metal).
    • Developed a phishing framework and ran high-profile phishing campaigns for major Swiss financial organizations.
    • Built the Cyber Defense Center from scratch, recruiting team members and providing mentorship.
  4. Akamai Technologies

    2015 – 2018

    Senior SOC Specialist · Cracow, Poland

    • Lead DDoS mitigation expert and escalation point for the global Security Operations Center.
    • Detected DDoS attack vectors through deep packet analysis and developed mitigation policies for emerging threats.
    • Built the Cracow SOC from scratch: recruiting, training material, and technical documentation.
  5. Cisco Systems

    2015

    CMS Network Engineer · Cracow, Poland

    • Full-cycle configuration and administration of Cisco equipment in mission-critical infrastructures.
    • Advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics on Cisco routers; incident management per ITIL/ISO procedures.
  6. Atos IT Solutions and Services

    2013 – 2015

    3rd Line Network Engineer · Bydgoszcz, Poland

    • Provided 3rd-line LAN/WLAN support for wireless infrastructure (802.11 a/b/g/n) with Enterasys and Cisco controllers.
    • Configured BGP, OSPF, HSRP, VRRP, ACLs, static routing, and EtherChannels.
  7. SpeedNet

    2011 – 2013

    Field Engineer · Ropczyce, Poland

    • Wireless installations using climbing equipment on buildings and structures.
    • Full-cycle 802.11a/b/g point-to-point implementations in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands.

education

  1. University of Rzeszów, Poland

    2009 – 2013

    Bachelor's degree, Technical Information and Education

    • Received scientific scholarships.
    • Erasmus exchange at Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; MOST exchange at Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

skills

Security Engineering

Cloud & Infrastructure

Automation & AI

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