Yury Leonychev
VP Of Technology at Wallarm: API Security Leader
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolYury Leonychev is a seasoned technology leader with 13+ years building and securing large-scale cloud, identity, and API platforms, currently serving as VP of Technology at Wallarm where he leads core platform services, the Wallarm Node, and global Cloud DevOps/SRE. He combines deep security roots—from penetration testing and Yandex.Passport authentication to patented work in two-factor auth and fraud prevention—with infrastructure leadership shaping Rakuten’s private-cloud control plane and multi-region standards. Yury treats AI/ML as foundational infrastructure, running ClickHouse-scale analytics and NLP-based anomaly/bot detection, and has driven compliance programs like FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR across products and regions. Known for unifying product, security, and infra vision, he builds reproducible engineering processes and hires senior engineers he’d want to work with for the next decade. Based in Tokyo, he speaks and writes on LLM-generated code safety and ML-in-production security, blending hands-on engineering, architecture, and organizational design.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Applied Mathematics, BS, Applied Mathematics at Chelyabinsk State UniversityMaster, Information security, Parallel computing, Master, Information security, Parallel computing at South Ural State University (SUSU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (47)
data-analysis10
python10
data-science10
paths10
statistics10
machine-learning10
android-sdk10
sdk10
docker-container10
logrus10
android-emulator10
logger9
pluggable9
rest-security9
user-activity9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tracer0tong/buzzboard
Mar 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 16 PRs in 6 years 7 months
user-activitynighttokyo-nightmachine-learningowasp
tracer0tong/android-emulator
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Yet another Docker container with Android SDK and Android emulator
Contributions:44 commits, 10 PRs, 36 pushes in 6 years 6 months
android-emulatoremulatordockerandroidsdk
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