Noam Rathaus
CTO at Apolyta
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNoam Rathaus is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience in security engineering, product leadership, and early-stage investing based in Israel. He co-founded and led Beyond Security for more than two decades, and today splits his time between executive CTO roles (Apona Security, We-Bridge), startup building (Maru Summit), and active angel/seed investing across multiple cybersecurity and tech ventures. A pragmatic engineer, he contributes to high-impact open-source security tooling such as the Metasploit Framework, where he fixed bugs and extended protocol handling—demonstrating deep familiarity with exploit tooling and credential handling. His background in electrical engineering and early service as an IDF security specialist underpin a career that blends low-level technical rigor with strategic product and go-to-market judgment. Notably, he continues to operate at the intersection of engineering, security research, and venture support, helping founders scale secure, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.SC Electrical Engineering, B.SC Electrical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Italian, Hebrew, French
Stackoverflow
5,515reputation
2.1mreached
158answers
12questions
openssl
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certificate
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mysql
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windows
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Github Skills (22)
snmp10
meta10
it-security10
snmpd10
ruby10
security10
meta-framework10
metasploit10
mysql9
penetration-testing9
windows9
openssl9
certificate9
react9
tcp8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 15 PRs, 139 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Noam contributed to the Metasploit Framework by addressing code quality issues, fixing bugs related to indentation and syntax errors in Ruby modules. They also implemented and improved features like adding support for TCP protocol for SNMP packets and the handling of the PASSWORD_SPRAY option within credential handling. Their work involved modifications to multiple modules and core components.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
nrathaus/metasploit-framework
Apr 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 1 month
metasploitmetasploit-framework
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