Ruslan Habalov
Lead Security Engineer at Asymmetric Research
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuslan Habalov is a lead security engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in application security, penetration testing, and security research across Google and boutique blockchain-focused firms. He combines offensive security expertise with tooling and code-analysis experience, having progressed from internship to senior roles at Google and now leading security work at Asymmetric Research. Notable research includes a widely covered 2018 CSS3 side‑channel discovery and high-impact bug bounty wins, demonstrating an ability to find subtle, real‑world vulnerabilities. Based in New York and trained at RWTH Aachen, he bridges web2 and web3 security, with a public technical presence via his blog and active interest in ML-informed security research.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (22)
vulnerability10
software-composition-analysis10
java10
vulnerabilities10
cve10
sca10
solidity4
parser4
blockchain4
ethereum4
smart-contracts4
neo4j3
control-flow3
graph3
security2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/vulncode-db
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Vulncode-DB project
Contributions:1 release, 127 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 10 months
vulnerabilitiescvevulnerabilityjavasoftware-composition-analysis
evonide/gpu-passthrough
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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