Summary
Ivan Zlatanov is a Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience specializing in IoT, SCADA, and LLM vulnerabilities, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He builds enterprise software and leads red team operations, security audits, and penetration tests for large-scale corporate clients while having established an in-house info-sec team and launched an active security-as-a-service offering. His background spans applied research and product work—developing hardware/software for cyber exercises, securing AWS CI/CD pipelines, and consulting on commercial portals—plus freelance projects for international clients. Ivan has taught Active InfoSec at Sofia University, bringing practical offensive security lessons to students, and maintains a research-oriented mindset evidenced by his focus areas on GitHub. Notably, he blends offensive testing with product engineering, making security a first-class component of the systems he helps build.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Economic Informatics, High School, Economic Informatics at НТБГ
English, Bulgarian