Itzik Kotler
Advisor at NextGen Cyber
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
Github Skills (24)
dataflow-programming9
process-injection9
bash-shell9
64-bit9
server-side8
python8
oop8
caching7
python-path7
cpp6
autoconfiguration6
http6
interpreter6
shell5
malware5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SafeBreach-Labs/cachetalk
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Proof-of-concept program that is able to read and write arbitrary bits using HTTP server-side caching
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
cachingserver-side
ikotler/hackersh
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:106 commits in 6 months
a-shellpythonsecurity-toolsboxsecurity
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