Best Students Award
FCSE (FINKI), Skopje · Apr 2026
Awarded for an average grade above 9.5 across years I–IV of studies.
$ whoami
Jovan Simonoski
Junior TA @ FCSE UKIM Software Engineer @ CodeChem
Cybersecurity-focused software engineer and master’s student working across trust & identity, programming, and teaching.
Skopje, North Macedonia
$ about
Security-minded, by default.
Master’s student in Internet Technologies & Cyber Security at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE) - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM) and Junior Teaching Assistant on Computer Networks and Infrastructure related courses.
Working as a software engineer at CodeChem.
I am also part of GÉANT’s GN5-2 Trust & Identity Incubator.
I previously worked as a Laboratory Tutor at FCSE and completed an internship at Radboud University’s Digital Security department (iCIS), focusing on software implementation and optimization in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography.
My interests include computer networks, application software, and cybersecurity.
$ experience
Where I’ve worked.
Jun 2026 - Present
Software Engineer
CodeChem Inc
Skopje, North Macedonia
Oct 2025 - Present
Junior Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE / FINKI), Skopje · Full-time
Skopje, North Macedonia · On-site
Conducting auditory and laboratory exercises for the following courses:
Winter semester 2025/2026
- Computer Networks and Security
- System Administration
- Cloud Computing
Summer semester 2025/2026
- Computer Networks Design
- Network Administration
- Virtualization
- Digital Forensics
Oct 2025 - Present
WP5 – T5 Trust & Identity Incubator Member
GÉANT GN5-2 · Part-time
Software implementation in the area of OpenID Connect.
Mar 2025 - Sep 2025
Trust & Identity Mentorship Programme (TIM) Student Intern
GÉANT GN5-2 · Part-time
Built “Bona Fide”, a researcher verification system.
JovanSimonoski/GEANT-TIM-BonaFideOct 2024 - Jul 2025
Laboratory Tutor
FCSE (FINKI), Skopje · Part-time
Skopje, North Macedonia · On-site
Assisted in the laboratory exercises for the following courses:
- Information Security
- Digital Forensics
- Cryptography
- Computer Networks
- System Administration
- Object-Oriented Programming
Aug 2024 - Oct 2024
Intern
Digital Security Department, iCIS, Radboud University
Nijmegen, Netherlands · On-site
Software implementation and optimization in Post-Quantum Cryptography, mentored by PhD Simona Samardjiska.
JovanSimonoski/CrossbredAlgorithm
$ education
Academic background.
Oct 2025 - Present
Master’s degree - Internet Technologies and Cyber Security
FCSE (FINKI), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Sep 2021 - Sep 2025
Bachelor’s degree - Internet, Networks and Security
FCSE (FINKI), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
GPA 9.88 / 10
thesis › “Bona Fide? A Researcher Verification System” - mentored by PhD Filiposka Sonja, in collaboration with the TIM team of GÉANT GN5-2.
2017 - 2021
Gymnasium - Natural Sciences & Mathematics (A)
SOU “Car Samoil”
$ publications
Research & papers.
CIIT 2026
“Classification and Analysis of Open-Source Gen-AI Penetration Testing Tools”
Jovan Simonoski, Vojdan Kjorveziroski
CIIT 2025
“Ollama LLMs Serverless Deployment - Performance Evaluation Using LangChain”
Zorica Karapancheva, Jovan Simonoski, Marjan Gushev, Dimitar Mileski
$ projects
Selected projects.
GEANT-TIM-BonaFide
Researcher verification system built during the GÉANT TIM internship; also my bachelor thesis project.
JovanSimonoski/GEANT-TIM-BonaFide
- Trust & Identity
- GÉANT GN5-2
- Bachelor thesis
CrossbredAlgorithm
Post-quantum cryptography work - implementation and optimization of the Crossbred algorithm, from the Radboud University internship.
JovanSimonoski/CrossbredAlgorithm
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Radboud iCIS
- Research
$ honors && ctf
Honors, awards & CTF.
Hack The Box University CTF 2025
UKIM CTF team · supported by FINKI CIRT
22ndof 1014 universities
$ certificates
Certificates.
Cybersecurity Essentials
Cisco · 2022
Introduction to Cybersecurity
Cisco · 2022
$ skills && languages
Skills & languages.
focus areas
- Trust & Identity
- Programming
- Data Engineering
- Information Security
- Penetration Testing
- CTF
- LLMs
- Cloud Computing
- Teaching
languages
- Macedoniannative
- Englishfluent