Bogdan Barchuk
CTO Penetration Test Specialist Cybersecurity Project Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBogdan Barchuk is a cybersecurity leader and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming, and security project management across enterprise, government, and OT/SCADA environments. He combines deep offensive skills—exploit development, custom tooling, AI-assisted pentesting, and source code review in Go/Python/Java—with strategic capabilities in security standards, compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST) and incident response. Bogdan has led teams at CQR, Intellias and EPAM, mentoring juniors while delivering high-impact assessments for cloud, AD, IoT and industrial control systems. He’s built automation stacks (Docker, RabbitMQ, CI/CD) and open-source reconnaissance/scan tooling, and has practical experience embedding security into development lifecycles. Notably, his background spans both law-enforcement cyber units and private sector CTO work, giving him rare visibility into threat actor techniques and enterprise remediation workflows.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree IT security, Bachelor's degree IT security at Ontario Tech University
Github Skills (193)
web-application10
security10
infosec10
webapp10
sql-injection10
hacking10
php10
scanner9
django9
owasp9
vulnerabilities9
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
security-automation9
python9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vulnz/DVWA
May 2022 - Nov 2024
Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA)
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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vulnz/gmasper
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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