Ivan Novikov
CEO at Wallarm
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Novikov is a seasoned entrepreneur and security-focused CEO with 11 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently leading Wallarm from Austin. Trained as a physicist (Master’s, Moscow State University) and a Y Combinator alumnus, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with product and go-to-market experience in API security. A hands-on builder and bughunter with reported findings at major platforms, he contributes to open-source tooling like gotestwaf—a Go project for assessing WAFs and API defenses—where he’s implemented concurrent-safe reporting and payload export features. His background spans Java development, SAP consulting, and founding security firms, giving him rare visibility across enterprise integrations and adversarial testing. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical CEO who still codes into product security and threat validation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at Moscow State UniversityAlumni Startups science, Alumni Startups science at YCombinator
English
Github Skills (14)
web-application-firewall10
api-security10
security-testing10
go10
waf10
test-automation10
yaml9
pdf-generation9
csv-export8
bug-tracker7
bug-reporting7
bugtracking7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wallarm/gotestwaf
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
An open-source project in Golang to asess different API Security tools and WAF for detection logic and bypasses
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:87 commits, 47 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on developing and improving the `gotestwaf` project, an open-source API security tool. Their contributions include implementing test cases and reports for security assessments, improving the reporting design, and adding features such as the ability to export payloads. They also addressed issues with the code, by implementing mutexes to prevent data overwriting during concurrent execution.
golangweb-application-securityapisecurity-toolsgrpc-security
wallarm/neuraldrugs
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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