Itzik Kotler
Advisor at ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorItzik Kotler is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and advisor with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling breach-and-attack-simulation, runtime protection, and governance platforms from research to market. As Co‑Founder and CTO of SafeBreach, he helped create a patented, hacker‑playbook driven platform that continuously validates security controls and has been recognized at RSA and Black Hat; he now advises multiple startups across identity, open‑source risk, cloud runtime protection and MCP governance. Known for blending deep offensive research and product engineering, he has led SOC teams, discovered complex protocol vulnerabilities, and built developer tools like Hackersh and Pythonect. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines practitioner empathy for SOC workflows with a founder’s instinct for translating attack research into operational security value.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
dataflow-programming9
64-bit9
bit9
dll-injection8
python8
dataflow8
oop7
programming-language7
injection7
cpp5
shell5
security5
windows5
interpreter4
jekyll-theme3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SafeBreach-Labs/cachetalk
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
ikotler/pythonect
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
A general-purpose dataflow programming language based on Python, written in Python
Contributions:180 commits in 1 year 4 months
pythondataflow-programmingpurposeprogramming-languagedataflow
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