Itzik Kotler
Advisor at Mission Critical
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorItzik Kotler is a security technologist, entrepreneur, and advisor with over 13 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of SafeBreach and advising multiple cybersecurity ventures including Hopper Security, Raven.io, Fabrix Security, and Vorlon. He leads SafeBreach's breach-and-attack simulation platform, delivering a hacker's view to continuously validate and improve security controls across networks, endpoints, cloud, and identity. As a fellow at ICIT and a strategic advisor to Mission Critical and NextGen Cyber, he blends research-driven insights with practical security leadership to advance critical infrastructure resilience. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he has a track record of turning innovative security research into market-ready products and presenting at major conferences like Black Hat and RSA. An active open-source advocate and former board member of OWASP Israel, he also champions diversity and education in cybersecurity. He combines hands-on engineering with executive vision to shift security from point-in-time assessments to continuous assurance.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
dataflow-programming9
bit9
64-bit9
dll-injection8
python8
wrappers8
dataflow8
oop7
programming-language7
injection7
python36
shell5
cpp5
windows-105
security5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SafeBreach-Labs/cachetalk
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
ikotler/pythonect
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
A general-purpose dataflow programming language based on Python, written in Python
Contributions:180 commits in 1 year 4 months
pythondataflow-programmingpurposeprogramming-languagedataflow
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