Ilya Lichtenstein
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Lichtenstein is a founder and seasoned tech entrepreneur with nine years of professional experience building startups that scaled to millions in ARR. He combines deep operational startup experience—from founding MixRank and Endpass to advising early-stage teams—with a rare, real-world offensive security background honed during earlier illicit activity and later rehabilitative cooperation with federal agencies. After assisting the FBI, IRS-CI, HSI and DOJ on major cyber and crypto investigations and helping recover billions in stolen assets, he now focuses on securing AI agents as founder of a stealth AI security startup. Comfortable at the intersection of product, cryptography, and threat research, he has led remote engineering teams, designed web3-native architectures, and invested in early-stage ventures. His trajectory reflects both hard-earned technical credibility and an uncommon second-chance perspective that informs pragmatic, risk-first security tooling. Based in New York, he translates high-stakes investigative insight into prevention-first engineering for next-generation AI systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonGlenbrook South
English, Russian
Github Skills (65)
html-parsing10
jquery9
wallet9
ethereum-wallet9
blockchain9
simple-api9
goquery8
solidity8
ethereum8
wildcard8
mocking8
testing7
golang7
smart-contracts7
css-selectors7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
endpass/endpass-wallet
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Lightweight, easy to use Ethereum wallet
Contributions:645 commits, 189 PRs, 159 pushes in 7 months
ethereumethereum-walletblockchainwallet
machinae/endpass-wallet
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Lightweight, easy to use Ethereum wallet
Contributions:129 pushes, 75 branches in 7 months
ethereumethereum-walletblockchainwallet
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