Denis Podgurskii
Associate Director-Senior Software Engineer Specialist
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Podgurskii is an application security leader and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of focused experience and 14+ years helping teams bake security into the SDLC. Currently an Associate Director at Moody’s Analytics, he has led product security research and engineering teams at Contrast Security, News UK and Rapid7, blending hands-on vulnerability research, DevSecOps automation, and product strategy. He excels at translating emerging threats and CVE analysis into practical controls—building and integrating SAST/SCA/DAST/RASP tooling across developer workflows. Denis pairs technical leadership with program management, having run global teams, OKR-driven research agendas, and bug bounty triage programs. Fluent in both development and executive communication, he’s equally comfortable presenting research at conferences or mentoring engineers on threat modeling and secure design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT engineer, IT engineer at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
Github Skills (8)
xss9
jwt9
owasp8
devtools8
security8
cms-detector8
browser-extension8
developer-tools5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DenisPodgurskii/pentestkit
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Created by Denis Podgurskiy via the GitHub Connector
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 3 months
connector
OWASP/www-project-penetration-testing-kit
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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