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Top SchoolBogdan Salamakha is a cybersecurity-focused founder and executive with over a decade of hands-on experience in IT, incident response, and cloud security, and four years formally counted in senior roles. He has led security and forensics engagements across government and enterprise environments, built exploit and automation tools in Python, PowerShell and Bash, and implemented compliance-as-code and IaC solutions on AWS using Terraform and CloudFormation. As CEO of VIRTUS and founder of Rimator.ai he blends strategic leadership with technical execution, guiding cloud migrations, threat hunting, and post-breach investigations to align security with business outcomes. His background spans low-level malware reverse engineering to architecting cloud-native controls (GuardDuty, Config, custom Lambda automation), reflecting an ability to move from research to production-grade defenses. Based in North Royalton, Ohio, he pairs practical incident response experience with an entrepreneurial drive to productize security operations.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at St. Petersburg College
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology - Applied Computer Security and Forensics, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology - Applied Computer Security and Forensics at Kent State University
English, Ukrainian