Artem Chaikin
Staff Security Engineer at Brave
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArtem Chaikin is a Staff Security Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience in information security, specializing in mobile application and web application assessments. He has led mobile and application security teams at Positive Technologies and contributed to enterprise penetration testing across banking, telecom and industrial control systems. At Brave he combines security leadership with practical iOS development contributions to the Brave browser, improving privacy-sensitive features and native integrations. A frequent speaker and published author in the security community, Artem also has basic exploit development skills and deep familiarity with languages like Perl, Java and PHP. Notably, his background spans both offensive research and engineering delivery, enabling him to translate complex vulnerabilities into actionable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (6)
swift10
ios10
ux-design8
ui-design8
obj7
objective-c7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-core
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:205 reviews, 95 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the Brave browser, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They addressed issues related to QR code scanning, specifically its interaction with the scrolling tabs bar and URL submission. Additionally, the user implemented a custom privacy-sensitive modifier and enabled the native Jitsi SDK for Brave Talk on specific hosts. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and integrating third-party services within the iOS application.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
stoletheminerals/DVWA
Feb 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
damn-vulnerable-web-applicationvulnerablesecurityweb-applicationvulnerable-web-application
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