Alex Smirnoff
CISO & Co-Founder at SOAX
Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Smirnoff is a seasoned information security executive and entrepreneur with over 30 years in the field and a dozen years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as CISO & Co-Founder of ARMA Instruments and CISO at SOAX. He blends hands-on technical craftsmanship—evident from contributions to the seccubus vulnerability scanning project improving Nessus and Medusa integrations—with strategic security governance, having stood up Parallels’ first enterprise-wide security program and guided ISO27001 efforts. Alex routinely converts penetration test findings and audits into pragmatic, business-aligned security roadmaps and mentors engineering teams to build secure products. His career spans government and commercial work, from designing security for Russian government networks to creating niche, highly secure communications hardware. Notably, he favors cost-effective, customized security tooling and continuous vulnerability management over expensive off-the-shelf solutions, demonstrating both technical depth and fiscal pragmatism.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)
English, Russian, Bulgarian
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
vulnerability-detection10
nessus10
security10
medusa9
analyse9
perl8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
seccubus/seccubus
Apr 2014 - Jul 2019
Easy automated vulnerability scanning, reporting and analysis
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 60 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to enhancing the functionality of the Nessus scanner integration within the Seccubus project. They focused on improving state tracking, fixing hostname and IP handling, and supporting newer Nessus versions. Their contributions also included incorporating support for the Medusa scanner and addressing merge conflicts related to code and build configurations, demonstrating an understanding of security tools and integration.
vulnerability-managementbugbountytestsslvulnerability-scannersnessus
arkenoi/liteqube
May 2023 - Aug 2024
Liteqube - put Qubes OS on a diet
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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