Kirill Efimov is a founding security engineer and hands-on tech leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling security products and developer tooling from Amsterdam. He has driven product and research initiatives at Snyk—leading vulnerability research, CVE disclosures, and a malicious-package detection tool for npm—and now leads a fast-growing security and data-science team at Mobb focused on program analysis and AI for cybersecurity. Comfortable across full-stack, backend and DevOps, Kirill has shipped everything from SCA and SAST prototypes to exploitable demo apps using Docker, Kubernetes and TypeScript-based CLIs. He combines deep engineering craft (C#, PHP, Node.js) with practical team building and public-facing thought leadership via conferences and blogs. A polyglot learner who studied Hebrew in addition to a master’s in software engineering, he blends research-driven approaches with product pragmatism.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Hebrew Language, Hebrew Language at Ulpan Etzion Carmel
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
St. Petersburg Technical College of Management and Commerce
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 99 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily worked on back-end functionalities, including seed management and configuration. They modified code related to running migrations and tests, suggesting involvement in development and testing workflows. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate familiarity with project structure, including configuration files, and environment setup, indicating a contribution to the back-end infrastructure.
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily focused on setting up and deploying a web application with supporting services, demonstrating full-stack development skills. They created an exploitable web application with PHP and a guestbook feature, and implemented a privileged pod with admin and payment areas. The user also utilized Docker, Kubernetes, and Minikube to build and manage the infrastructure, indicating DevOps practices.
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Kirill Efimov - Founding Engineer (Security) at Mobb