Niko Sokolik
AI Engineering Lead - CTO Office at Terra Security
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolNiko Sokolik is an AI engineering lead and security-minded product developer based in Tel-Aviv, combining cloud-native software design with deep offensive security expertise. With roots in Unit 8200 and roles across OT/IT security and developer teams, he has built and shipped cloud-first systems while discovering and responsibly disclosing multiple vulnerabilities. Comfortable across PHP, Java, Python, and C#, he moves between malware analysis, penetration testing, and production engineering to harden products from research to deployment. His recent trajectory spans senior engineering roles at Oxeye and GitLab to leading AI efforts in a CTO office, blending hands-on coding with technical strategy. Notably, he brings uncommon cross-domain fluency—translating low-level malware insights into practical cloud security controls that improve defender tooling and product resilience.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Github Skills (7)
opentelemetry10
python-modules10
logging10
sdk10
opentelemetry-collector10
python9
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oxeye-nikolay/opentelemetry-python-contrib
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Python modules
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 9 months
instrumentationpythontracingpython-modulesdistributed-tracing
oxeye-dorkolog/opentelemetry-python-contrib
May 2022 - Jun 2022
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Python modules
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
instrumentationpythontracingpython-modulesobservability
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