Danny Grander
Private Investor
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Grander is a seasoned security-focused technologist and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling security and software teams from R&D to startup exits. As co-founder of Snyk he helped steer product and security strategy through rapid growth, and earlier roles as CTO and Security Research Lead grounded him in applied threat research and embedded/enterprise systems. Now based in Tel Aviv and investing privately since 2019, he combines hands-on technical judgment with early-stage capital to help founders turn security-aware ideas into products. His background spans defense R&D, embedded software, and commercial security platforms, giving him a rare blend of operational, research, and investor perspectives. Unexpectedly, his trajectory shows a consistent pivot toward turning deep security expertise into business outcomes, not just technical innovations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science & Management, B.Sc. Computer Science & Management at The Open University of Israel
Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (130)
devsecops10
archiving10
security10
scanner10
static-analysis10
sarif10
zip10
vulnerabilities10
database10
cli10
tar10
lighthouse10
snyk10
monitor10
vulnerability10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grnd/hacker-scripts
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Based on a true story
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 4 months
game
snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Zip Slip Vulnerability (Arbitrary file write through archive extraction)
Contributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 9 months
extractionvulnerabilitiessecurityarbitraryarchive
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