Kota Kanbe
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolKota Kanbe is a software engineer and product leader with 13 years' experience building security tooling and driving enterprise adoption of open-source software. He created Vuls, a Go-based Linux vulnerability scanner with 12,000+ GitHub stars, and led FutureVuls from 0→1 to a commercial SaaS used by Toshiba PSIRT, Dentsu Soken and NTT DoCoMo. As R&D and Technical Product Manager he combines hands-on engineering, vulnerability research (SSVC, reachability, engineering triage) and product ownership to make vulnerability management actionable for engineering teams. His recent work detects lifecycle risks invisible to conventional SCA tools—launching Uzomuzo-OSS after finding 48% of 16,000 packages carried hidden EOL risk—and presented these findings at FIRST VulnCon 2026. A recognized OSS advocate and speaker (Black Hat Asia, CODE BLUE, HITCON), he also organizes Vuls Matsuri and won a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for his community impact. He’s based in Kawasaki, Japan, and uniquely blends low-level scanner engineering with product-led go-to-market experience.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Ritsumeikan University
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Github Skills (103)
programming-language10
devsecops10
security-hardening10
vulnerability-management10
vulnerability-scanners10
sbom10
security-automation10
security10
e-mail10
vulnerability-detection10
scanner10
misconfiguration10
static-analysis10
cjk10
cybersecurity10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kotakanbe/myhome
Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 24 pushes in 8 years 4 months
vulsio/vulsctl
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Easy setup tool for Vuls
Contributions:8 reviews, 76 commits, 46 PRs in 3 years 3 months
vueeasy-setupsetup-toolvuls
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