TakSec
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Takahashi is an AI red team researcher and seasoned security engineering leader with eight years of hands-on experience breaking and hardening AI systems. Based in Palo Alto, he’s submitted 400+ vulnerabilities across major programs and held the top rank on both Anthropic’s and Mozilla’s AI bug bounties, specializing in prompt injection, agent abuse, data exfiltration, and application security. His career spans building and managing red/blue teams and bug bounty programs at BetterHelp and Stanford, and he now focuses on offensive AI security at Zenity while continuing independent research. Mike combines pragmatic incident response and DLP deployment experience with creative adversarial techniques to find real-world impact, then help teams fix recurring patterns. Collected evidence of exploitability and reproducible demos are a hallmark of his work, making his findings actionable for product and security teams.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
pentesting10
web-application-security10
prompt-injection8
chatgpt5
infosec4
security4
dns-record3
xss3
subdomain1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TakSec/google-dorks-bug-bounty
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
A list of Google Dorks for Bug Bounty, Web Application Security, and Pentesting
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pentestingweb-application-security
TakSec/Prompt-Injection-Everywhere
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Prompt Injections Everywhere
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
prompt-injection
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