Summary
Petko Petkov is a founder and security-first technologist with over a decade of experience building startups and hardening products across identity verification, AI, FinTech and cybersecurity. He has led security transformation as VP/CISO at Onfido, founded multiple tooling companies (SecApps, Cohesion, Websecurify) and launched AI-first projects like ChatBotKit that were early adopters of RAG and agentic coding assistants. A prolific researcher and speaker, his work spans exploitation techniques for browsers, PDFs, network protocols, NoSQL and some of the earliest IoT device research, and he maintains active open-source repositories at github.com/pdparchitect. He pairs strategic leadership with hands-on coding across a dozen languages, and his entrepreneurial path includes both founding a non-profit think tank (GNUCITIZEN) and personally earning substantial bug bounties that shaped his BountyPage platform. Based in London, he is also an avid AI builder and biohacker with interests in cellular mechanics and longevity.
11 years of coding experience