Petko Petkov
Founder at ChatBotKit
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPetko Petkov is a founder and security-first technologist with over a decade of experience building startups and hardening products across identity verification, AI, FinTech and cybersecurity. He has led security transformation as VP/CISO at Onfido, founded multiple tooling companies (SecApps, Cohesion, Websecurify) and launched AI-first projects like ChatBotKit that were early adopters of RAG and agentic coding assistants. A prolific researcher and speaker, his work spans exploitation techniques for browsers, PDFs, network protocols, NoSQL and some of the earliest IoT device research, and he maintains active open-source repositories at github.com/pdparchitect. He pairs strategic leadership with hands-on coding across a dozen languages, and his entrepreneurial path includes both founding a non-profit think tank (GNUCITIZEN) and personally earning substantial bug bounties that shaped his BountyPage platform. Based in London, he is also an avid AI builder and biohacker with interests in cellular mechanics and longevity.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Richmond, The American International University in LondonA Physics Mathematics Sociology English German, A Physics Mathematics Sociology English German at High School of Natural Science
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (174)
docker-machine10
testing10
intercept10
security10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
ida10
invoke10
dockerfile10
graph-theory10
fingerprint10
infosec10
browser10
theory10
graph10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pownjs/webview
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
This module provides browser-like capabilities supported by Electron.
Contributions:33 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
electronbrowserjavascriptsupportedcapabilities
pownjs/www
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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