Michael Engstler
Co-Founder & CTO at Cybellum
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Engstler is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and technical leader with nine years of experience, co-founding and serving as CTO of Cybellum, which was acquired by LG Electronics for $240M. He builds and scales R&D organizations across offensive and defensive security, translating high-risk research into production-ready risk management solutions. A former officer in Israel’s elite intelligence corps (unit 8153), he led vulnerability research, exploit development, and engineering teams before founding Cybellum. Based in Israel, he pairs deep technical rigor from military-grade security work with startup-stage product and go-to-market execution. Unusually for a CTO, he is also pursuing advanced aviation training, reflecting a precision-focused mindset and appetite for high-stakes, regulated domains.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science at The Open University of IsraelCommercial Pilot License, Commercial Pilot License at Moonair Aviation AcademyMulti-Engine Piston Rating, Multi-Engine Piston Rating at Aviation AcademyAerobatic Rating, Aerobatic Rating at British Aerobatic Academy
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (2)
code-injection9
binary-format4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
Cybellum/DoubleAgent
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Zero-Day Code Injection and Persistence Technique
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 6 days
code-injection
angr/cle
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
CLE Loads Everything (at least, many binary formats!)
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
binary-format
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