Ivan Elkin
Technical Lead In Application Security
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Elkin is a Technical Lead in Application Security with a decade of hands-on experience securing large-scale financial platforms and co-founding a vulnerability intelligence startup. At Exness he progressed from Application Security Team Leader to Technical Lead, driving secure development, automated testing, and threat-informed engineering practices. As co-founder of Vulners he helped build a widely used vulnerability data platform and contributed backend enhancements to tools like the burp-vulners-scanner that integrate external vulnerability APIs for more accurate detection. Previously he led application security at Qiwi, blending penetration testing, SAST/DAST, and automation to operationalize security across development teams. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he brings an analytical, systems-oriented approach to application security and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
javas10
apim10
api10
java10
http-client9
regular-expression7
ui-design6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vulnersCom/burp-vulners-scanner
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Vulnerability scanner based on vulners.com search API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ivan appears to be focused on developing and maintaining the back-end functionality of the Burp Suite vulnerability scanner. Their contributions include implementing features for API integration, managing HTTP client configurations, and improving the user interface with API token input. The changes indicate an effort to enhance the scanner's capabilities, likely related to vulnerability detection and reporting based on external API data.
apiscannersecurity-toolsopenvasvulnerabilities
vankyver/vulners-browser-scanner
Jul 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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