Alikhan Uzakov
Team Lead at FINRA
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlikhan Uzakov is a hands-on Team Lead and application security specialist with a decade of experience building secure software and leading small engineering teams across the UK and US. He progressed from software engineering roles into AppSec positions at Zoopla and Marks & Spencer before joining FINRA as a Senior Security Engineer and now Team Lead, blending deep technical review skills with operational leadership. Comfortable writing code and security tools as well as shaping secure development practices, he pairs a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science with practical mentoring experience from academic TA and leadership roles. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings a practitioner’s focus to threat modeling, secure SDLC integration, and pragmatic risk reduction—often preferring code-first fixes over paper reports.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
A level, A level at Pangbourne collegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Computer Science at Aston University
English, Russian, Kazakh
Github Skills (30)
ticker9
stock7
alerts7
mobile-application5
jekyll4
backend4
google-chrome3
gmail3
file-upload3
router3
javascript3
gatsby3
chrome-extension3
facebook2
security2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uzakov/cryptom
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pgpfacebookchromegoogle-chromemessenger
uzakov/uzakov.github.io
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:44 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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