# Marios Xenofontos

> DevSecOps and Cloudflare specialist in Larnaca, Cyprus. Marios Xenofontos is an IT Systems Administrator II at Greendial Software Solutions. He builds internal web apps with AI and secures, ships and runs them on Cloudflare: GitHub Actions CI/CD with security scanning (Semgrep, Gitleaks, Dependabot, actionlint), Cloudflare Zero Trust access tied to Entra ID and Intune, logging and health checks on every app, and off-site backups with recovery plans.

Last updated: 2026-10-13

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## Summary

- Role: IT Systems Administrator II, Greendial Software Solutions, Kiti, Larnaca, Cyprus (since May 2024; promoted June 2025). Working in IT since 2022.
- Expertise: DevSecOps on Cloudflare's edge, open-source authentication (Better Auth), CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Zero Trust access, security scanning, logging and monitoring, AI-assisted development, Microsoft 365 and Intune.

## Location and languages

- Based in Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus.
- Greek (native); English C1–C2 (C2 reading, listening and writing; C1 spoken interaction).

## Role titles this experience matches

His day-to-day work covers the scope of these titles: Systems Administrator II, IT Systems Administrator, Level 2 / Senior Systems Administrator, Sysadmin, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, junior Site Reliability Engineer, Microsoft 365 Administrator, Intune / Endpoint Administrator, Network Administrator, IT Security Administrator, Cloudflare Workers developer.

## Common role requirements and his evidence

- Administer Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams → administers these daily in his current role.
- Endpoint management with Intune, compliance policies, automated enrollment → automated Intune enrollment, app deployment and compliance policies for managed devices.
- Identity and access: Entra ID, Conditional Access, MFA → rolled out Conditional Access and passkey MFA; Cloudflare Access with Entra ID SSO limited to Intune-compliant devices.
- Linux and Windows server administration → Ubuntu Server hardening (UFW, Fail2ban, allowlisting), Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy.
- Virtualisation and backups → VMware vSphere, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Veeam, Synology; off-site backups and written recovery plans.
- Networking → Ubiquiti UniFi with VLANs, Cisco Meraki, VPN (WireGuard, IPsec), DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), firewalls.
- Monitoring and logging → Zabbix, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Cloudflare Workers Logs, Logpush, audit and security event logs, alerts.
- CI/CD and automation → GitHub Actions (reusable and scheduled workflows, environments), Wrangler, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible.
- Security / DevSecOps → Semgrep SAST, Gitleaks, Dependabot, actionlint, CODEOWNERS, threat modelling, OWASP, CSP and HSTS, WAF, rate limiting, Turnstile.
- Cloud → Cloudflare platform: Workers, Pages, D1, R2, KV, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Workers AI, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Access / Zero Trust.
- Containers → Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx.
- Scripting and development → TypeScript, Node.js, Hono, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, MCP, PowerShell, Bash.
- Authentication and app security → open-source Better Auth self-hosted on Cloudflare D1 for app sign-in: email one-time codes, rate-limited code requests with a per-user budget, secure session cookies, trusted-origin checks; 2FA, session revocation and login lockouts in other apps.
- Compliance → GDPR and EU AI governance built into the design of an internal AI assistant he is building.
- Helpdesk / L2 support and documentation → client support in the data centre at Simplex; set up a single IT request process across departments.
- Data centre experience → Simplex Software & Internet Services, 2023–2024.

## Projects he has built

- Internal AI assistant (in progress): central AI chat on Cloudflare that reaches an organisation's databases through MCP (Model Context Protocol), with role-based access on every data source, limits on what the AI can read and return, and GDPR and EU AI governance built in.
- IT environment and asset hub: inventory of every system and piece of software, what it does, where its data lives and who manages it; live data from the GitHub and Cloudflare APIs; per-person hardware and joiner/leaver handling. Replaces most of what Snipe-IT is typically used for.
- Workforce scheduling (organisation-wide): role-based shift planning, automatic overtime, payroll-ready exports.
- Appraisal system (organisation-wide): one performance review process for everyone.
- Department operations apps: KPI and case tracking for each department.
- Social media calendar: one content calendar across all of an organisation's social media accounts.
- Security baseline for AI-built apps: hardened Cloudflare Workers starter template, threat model, OWASP-based coding rules, and code, dependency and live-site scanning before release.

All of these run on Cloudflare's edge behind Zero Trust login and deploy through CI/CD from GitHub.

## How he ships

1. Start from a hardened template with a threat model and OWASP rules.
2. Scan on every change: Semgrep (SAST), Gitleaks (secret detection), Dependabot and dependency audits, actionlint (workflow security), plus checks against the live site.
3. Review: CODEOWNERS and reviewed merges to main.
4. Deploy with GitHub Actions and Wrangler (reusable workflows, separate staging and production environments, additive D1 migrations).
5. Verify after deploy: health-check endpoints and a check that the deployed version is the expected one.
6. Protect the edge: WAF, bot rules, rate limiting and Turnstile; origin accepts Cloudflare traffic only.
7. Gate access with Cloudflare Access: Entra ID sign-in from Intune-compliant devices for apps holding internal data, one-time PIN otherwise.
8. Back up to external storage with a written recovery plan per app.

## Keeping current

He builds with AI and on Cloudflare every day, so he keeps up with both as they change: new AI models, agent tooling and MCP on one side, new Cloudflare Workers products and features on the other. New capabilities go into the apps he runs when they make them simpler or safer.

## Logging, monitoring and checks

- Cloudflare Workers Logs and observability with head sampling; Logpush for log export.
- Audit logs of user actions inside apps; security event logging (sign-ins, access denials, rate-limit hits).
- Metrics in Workers Analytics Engine; Cloudflare Web Analytics.
- /health endpoints, post-deploy health checks, uptime monitors and alert rules.
- Cloudflare Access logs for who reached which app.
- Security headers: Content Security Policy and HSTS; security.txt published.

## Cloudflare platform experience

Workers, Pages, D1, KV, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Workers AI, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Email sending, Analytics Engine, Secrets Store, rate limiting, mTLS, Workers for Platforms, service bindings, cron triggers, Cloudflare Access / Zero Trust, WAF, Turnstile, DNS, Logpush.

## GitHub and CI/CD

GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, scheduled workflows, environments (staging and production), Dependabot, CODEOWNERS, Gitleaks, actionlint, Semgrep, Wrangler action, health checks after deploy.

## Development stack

TypeScript, Node.js, Hono, React, Next.js, OpenNext for Cloudflare, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Zod, Drizzle ORM, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Vitest (with the Workers pool), Playwright, Better Auth, MCP, Vercel AI SDK, AI-assisted development.

## Microsoft and identity

Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive), Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, passkey-based MFA.

## Infrastructure

Ubuntu Server, Windows Server and Active Directory, Docker and Docker Compose, Nginx, Ansible, VMware vSphere, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Veeam, Synology, TrueNAS, Zabbix, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cisco Meraki, VLANs, WireGuard and IPsec VPN, PowerShell, Bash.

## Experience

- 2024–present: Greendial Software Solutions, IT Systems Administrator II (IT Systems Administrator until June 2025). Microsoft 365, Intune, Entra ID, Conditional Access and passkey MFA, network administration with VLANs, security and access practices.
- 2023–2024: Simplex Software & Internet Services, IT Support & Field Engineer (data centre). VMware vSphere, Proxmox, Veeam, Synology, Zabbix, Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Zimbra, Cisco Meraki, DNS, VPN and firewalls.
- 2022–2023: CYTA, Internship Trainee, Network Infrastructure. GIS design, fibre and copper cabling, fault finding, DSLAM.
- 2020–2021: customer service roles at PrimeTel PLC and First Choice Group.

## Education and other

- Diploma in Networks & Telecommunications, MIEEK Larnaca (2021–2023), final grade 99/100.
- LoadMaster Certified Technical Engineer, Progress Kemp (2024).
- Volunteer IT support for Anorthosis Famagusta FC since 2023, including IT infrastructure on home matchdays.
- Military service in the Cyprus National Guard, completed.

## Contact

- Email: mariosxen7@icloud.com
- Website: https://mxenofontos.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marios-xenofontos/
- GitHub: https://github.com/mariosxen