Jim Manico
Founder, CEO And Application Security Educator
Anahola, Hawaii, United States
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Jim Manico is a veteran application security leader and founder who has spent over 15 years training developers, architects, and security teams to build secure software and now embeds that expertise into AI-driven tools. As CEO of Manicode Security and long-time OWASP project lead, he drives practical, developer-verifiable standards including OWASP ASVS and the AISVS for secure AI development. He combines deep hands-on software engineering (24+ years coding experience) with standards leadership, authorship (Iron-Clad Java), and recognized industry influence as a 2018 Java Champion and OWASP Distinguished Lifetime Member. Jim also invests in and advises security infrastructure startups (Semgrep, Nucleus, RAD Security, others) and has been part of multiple successful exits, demonstrating an operator-investor blend. Based in Anahola, Hawaii, he pairs island living with global impact, translating complex security controls into teachable, actionable developer practices. Quietly, he’s helped institutionalize how developers verify AI systems, making security both measurable and reproducible.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Building and Testing Secure LAMP Web Applications, Building and Testing Secure LAMP Web Applications at Secure Internet Presence - LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP)Building and Testing Secure Web Applications, Building and Testing Secure Web Applications at Black Hat US 2007 TrainingBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Siena University
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Github Skills (111)
penetration-testing10
maven-plugin10
defense10
security10
svg10
xss10
encoding10
ai-security10
jenkins-plugin10
gradle-plugin10
scanner10
javascript10
encoder10
document-repository10
mobile-application10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/AISVS
May 2025 - Jul 2026
The AI Security Verification Standard (AISVS) focuses on providing developers, architects, and security professionals with a structured checklist to verify the security of AI-driven applications.
Contributions:72 reviews, 147 PRs, 403 pushes in 1 year 2 months
aiai-securitysecurityaisecurity
OWASP/www-project-java-encoder
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
OWASP Foundation Web Respository
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
owasp
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