Adam Nygate
Principal Product Manager, Threat Research & Defense
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Nygate is a Principal Product Manager specializing in threat research, cloud security, and secure-by-design product strategy, with a decade of experience leading teams and security transformation across Europe, Southeast Asia and the U.S. He founded and scaled huntr—an OSS vulnerability-finding marketplace later acquired by Protect AI—and then led product for threat research through its acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Adam combines hands-on engineering and architecture experience (serverless, PaaS/FaaS, SIEM) with strong stakeholder communication, having driven cross-domain security programs for government and enterprise clients. Known for building programs that fund and mobilize OSS security contributors, he blends entrepreneurial grit with technical rigor to turn complex security requirements into operational products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Cyber Security, Bachelor’s Degree Cyber Security at Edith Cowan UniversityDiploma Science (Computing and IT), Diploma Science (Computing and IT) at Perth Institute of Business and TechnologyHigh School, High School at JFS
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Github Skills (200)
vulnerability-management10
authentication10
heroku10
whatsapp10
lambda-functions10
javascript10
custom-domain10
aws-amplify10
salesforce10
conversation10
vulnerability10
aws-lambda10
cookie10
aws-appsync10
docker10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
418sec/NodeGoat
Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them.
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
nodejsowaspsecurity
adam-nygate/huntr
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
📚 Open source resources related to huntr - the bug bounty platform
Contributions:10 PRs, 47 pushes in 3 months
bugbountysecurityhuntr
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