Stepan Ilyin
Co-Founder at Wallarm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStepan Ilyin is a co-founder and engineering leader with eight years of experience building Wallarm, a San Francisco–based security platform used by hundreds of customers including Fortune 500 companies to protect and test websites, microservices, and APIs. He combines deep technical chops from a computer science master’s with business and managerial economics training, enabling him to bridge product, security, and go-to-market priorities. Under his leadership Wallarm focuses on shifting security left—integrating API and web protection into CI/CD to surface OWASP Top 10 risks and real-world attack telemetry. Stepan’s startup experience is grounded in Y Combinator acceleration and venture-backed scaling, reflecting both hands-on product shipping and investor-grade strategic thinking. Not obviously visible from public repos, he prioritizes operational visibility and automated remediation workflows that make security practical for DevOps teams. Based in San Francisco, he remains focused on pragmatic, scalable security engineering for cloud-native environments.
8 years of coding experience
Y CombinatorMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Github Skills (33)
lists10
waf10
unicorns10
rest-security10
hsts10
application-security10
security10
nginx-configuration10
api10
modsecurity10
webserver10
api-security10
nginx10
load-balancer10
security-scanner9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wallarm/awesome-nginx-security
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
🔥 A curated list of awesome links related to application security related to the environments with NGINX or Kubernetes Ingres Controller (based on NGINX)
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
nginxapiloadbalancerapi-applicationsecurity
stepan-i/awesome
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
:sunglasses: Curated list of awesome lists
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
usabilityneumorphismlistsupstreamtaskwarrior
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