Andrei Abakumov
Chief Information Security Officer Yandex Fintech & Funtech
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Abakumov is a seasoned information security leader with over a decade of experience and 8+ years focused across offensive and defensive security disciplines. As Chief Information Security Officer for Yandex Fintech & Funtech, he has designed cloud-first security architectures that enabled the first Russian bank to run in a public cloud and drove multiple PCI DSS and ISO certifications. He combines hands-on vulnerability research and bug bounty experience with large-scale program delivery—having led teams of 30+, run hundreds of architectural reviews, and implemented company-wide SDLC and DevSecOps practices. Known for bridging product, compliance and SOC functions, he also has a background in social-engineering tooling and automated external web scanning that reflects a pragmatic blend of red-team creativity and enterprise-grade governance.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security, Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security at ITMO University
English, German
Github Skills (50)
docker-desktop9
burp9
odt9
database-access9
rbac9
socket-io9
algorithms9
security9
bastion9
rdp9
docx9
firewall9
audit9
forum9
dns9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrewaeva/DGA
Nov 2014 - Jul 2017
The repository that contains the algorithms for generating domain names, dictionaries of malicious domain names. Developed to research the possibility of applying machine learning and neural networks to detect and classify malicious domains.
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 2 years 9 months
machine-learningneural-network
yandex/burp-molly-pack
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Security checks pack for Burp Suite
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
burpsecurityburp-extensionsburp-pluginvulnerability-detection
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