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Levente Simon

Principal Consultant | vC(IS|T)O | Architect

€890/day
Brussels, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Levente

Technology executive who builds production systems.
25 years leading international teams, architecting solutions, professional AI-Native development, and delivering complex transformation programs across Europe. Now advising organizations on technology strategy, security, architecture, and capability building.
  • Hungarian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Brussels (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Independent Practice
    Principal Consultant
    DIGITAL AND IT
    October 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    • Strategic advisory, enterprise and security architecture, M&A due diligence, and transformation program leadership
    • Interim and fractional CTO/CISO engagements, organizational design, and technology capability building
    • Solo-built dethernety (dether.net) – an open source, graph-native, AI-powered threat modeling platform. In-house tooling that powers the security work I deliver
    • Hands-on, professional AI-native development, agentic systems (LangChain, LangGraph, Claude Code plugin, native)
    Fullstack Cloud architect IT-Security IT Strategy AI-Native
  • EUROCONTROL
    Senior Consultant for EUROCONTROL iNM program
    AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
    October 2022 - July 2025 (2 years and 9 months)
    Brussels, Belgium
    • Architected cloud-native modernization of safety-critical European air traffic management systems
    • Designed operational support architecture for the iNM program, including observability, incident management, and distributed monitoring frameworks
    • Served as Acting Head of DevOps, establishing operational routines and cloud infrastructure practices
    Cloud architect Tech Lead DevSecOps IT Architecture Site Reliability Engineering
  • CETIN
    Regional Security Director
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    July 2020 - October 2022 (2 years and 3 months)
    Budapest, Hungary
    • Standardized security technology across 4 CEE countries, delivering unified security architecture and reducing operational complexity by 40%
    • Established and scaled regional Security Operations Center, providing services for telecom operators with 10M+ subscribers across multiple markets
    • Developed and executed 3-year regional security strategy, aligning with business objectives and regulatory requirements across CEE region
    • Led cross-functional team of 25+ security professionals across multiple countries, managing through country security leaders and fostering international collaboration
    • Reported directly to CEO with dotted line to Group CISO, participating in executive decision-making and strategic planning
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    IT-Security IT Strategy Tech Lead Project Management Business development

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Education

  • MSc Economics—Business Development
    Óbuda University
    2010
    MSc Business Development
  • BSc Engineering Management
    Budapest TECH
    2007
    Engineering Management

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