Yoav Alon
Chief Technology Officer at Orca Security
Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYoav Alon is a seasoned security leader and the Chief Technology Officer at Orca Security, bringing over a decade of hands-on experience in vulnerability research, security architecture, and product-focused R&D. His career spans Unit 8200 research roles and senior positions at Check Point and Hyperwise, where he translated deep technical research into commercial security products. A pragmatic engineer as well as an executive, Yoav has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Servo and Winafl—work that includes browser rendering features and hardening Windows fuzzing tools—illustrating his comfort across systems and tooling. Based in Israel, he combines operational leadership of engineering teams with a strong track record of shipping secure, scalable cloud-native solutions and turning advanced research into production-ready capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (23)
webbrowser10
servo10
wp-api10
css10
browser10
winapi10
webengine10
security10
dom10
afl-fuzz10
html10
selector10
fuzzing10
rust10
ws-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
googleprojectzero/winafl
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
A fork of AFL for fuzzing Windows binaries
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yoav primarily focused on enhancing the Windows-specific fuzzing tool, Winafl. Their contributions included addressing critical issues such as crashes on zero-sized input files and implementing support for catching heap corruption errors and verifier errors. They also added support for ANSI terminal output and added a utility for summarizing fuzzing runs. These changes collectively improved the stability, functionality, and usability of the fuzzing tool.
windowssecurityafl-fuzzfuzzingbinaries
servo/servo
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 31 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Yoav contributed to the Servo project by implementing features related to HTML table elements, including the `thead`, `tfoot`, and `tbody` sections, and their associated IDL attributes. They also fixed a bug in the Blob constructor, updating it to use optional parameters. Furthermore, they introduced support for the `:read-only` and `:read-write` pseudo-classes in the CSS selector implementation, adding functionality to the HTMLInputElement and HTMLTextAreaElement. Additionally, they added a test related to file loading in a testing context.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
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