Name: Bence Daniel Hezso

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Birthplace: Szeged, Hungary
Current HQ: Budapest, Hungary
Twitter | LinkedIn | GitHub | Credly

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Company:
Cryptic Consulting
EscapeCloud

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⚔️ Main Quests

Chapter 1 ('10–'13): Initial Steps as an Adult
• Graduated from High School (Tömörkény István High School - Szeged)
• Started at the University of Public Service as a Military and Safety Engineer BSc student ('10)
• Started at the University of Szeged as a Computer Science BSc student ('11)
• Founded Boadree with four co-founders (an automated penetration testing SaaS) ('11)
• Secured a $900,000 investment from Biggeorge’s-NV Equity VC ('12)
• Dropped out of both universities to focus on Boadree
• The VC-appointed CEO of Boadree mismanaged funds, leading us to close this journey ('13)
Chapter 2 ('13–'17): Getting Back to Learning
• Started at Corvinus University of Budapest as a Business Informatics Engineer BSc student ('13)
• Founded Cryptic Consulting and worked as an IT freelancer to finance my studies
• Founded Corvinus Geek Club to foster an IT bubble in the university space ('14)
• Founded Corvinus Sport Club to promote sports activities and branding, such as Corvinus Futsal ('15)
• Founded Corvinus Entrepreneurship Club to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset at the university ('16)
• Started working at Mito as a Technical Project Manager to lead the internal development team ('16)
• Graduated BSc from Corvinus University of Budapest ('17)
Chapter 3 ('17–'22): Focus on Work & Self-Development
• Promoted to Senior Technical Project Manager at Mito ('17)
• Transitioned to Solutions Architect at Mito ('19)
• Left Mito to focus on cloud technologies and self-development ('20)
• Joined SMP Solutions as a Cloud Solutions Architect to support OTP Group’s cloud journey ('21)
• Passed the CISSP certification on the first attempt, which I’m quite proud of ('22)
• Began remote contracting for Irish boutique consulting firms and U.S. startups ('22–'23)
Chapter 4 ('23–Present): EscapeCloud Journey
• Left remote contracting to focus on building EscapeCloud ('23)
• Filed my first patent (#18/413,071) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Published a professional article in ISC2 Insights on the topic of 'cloud exit'
• Participated as a panelist in ISC2 Spotlight: 'How 2024 Changed the Future of Cybersecurity'
• Launched exitcloud.io as a one-time assessment solution
• Launched the open-source EscapeCloud - Community Edition
• Delivered my first Vendor Briefing for Gartner about the EscapeCloud journey

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🗝️ Side Quests

• Certificates
  • Project Management Institute - Project Management Professional (PMP)® ('20)
  • The Open Group- TOGAF® 9 ('20)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional ('20)
  • Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Architect Certification ('20)
  • HashiCorp - Terraform Associate ('20)
  • HashiCorp - Vault Associate ('20)
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty ('21)
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty ('21)
  • The Linux Foundation - CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator ('21)
  • The Linux Foundation - CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist ('21)
  • Google Cloud - Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification ('22)
  • ISC2 - Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) ('22)
  • Palo Alto Networks - Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer ('23)
• Languages
  • Learn German
  • Learn Chinese