Yotam Perkal
Director, Security Research at Stealth Startup
Be'er Sheva, South District, Israel
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Top SchoolYotam Perkal is a cybersecurity research leader with 9 years of hands-on experience building data-driven security products and teams, currently serving as Director, Security Research at a stealth startup. He combines deep expertise in vulnerability management, threat intelligence, insider threat, and fraud detection with a practical background in cloud engineering and ML-driven data normalization. A published inventor with eight patents, Yotam has led cross-functional research that translated into product features like unified risk scoring, cloud asset modeling, and generative-AI normalization for heterogeneous security telemetry. He thrives at the intersection of security and AI, both applying AI to detection and exploring adversarial risks, data leakage, and poisoning in real deployments. Active in industry workgroups around SBOM, VEX, and open-source security, he’s known for turning complex research into customer-facing solutions and has presented at major conferences such as Black Hat and DEF CON. Based in Be'er Sheva, Israel, he pairs startup-building experience—including a founder/CTO role—with enterprise-scale security research at companies like Rezilion and PayPal.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (58)
nextjs9
security9
nodejs9
cve9
vulnerabilities8
sca8
vulnerability-assessment8
javascript8
vulnerability8
shap7
compression-algorithm7
machine-learning7
deflate7
zlib7
vulnerability-detection7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pyotam/Dataframe-Validation
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pyotam/Kaggle-Learning
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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