Uri Shamay
Chief Information Security Officer
Israel
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Top SchoolUri Shamay is a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer with 13+ years of hands-on and executive experience designing resilience, governance, and risk programs aligned to ISO 27001 and national supply-chain standards. He combines deep technical certifications (CISSP, CISM, CDPSE, CCSK, CEH) with long-tenured operational leadership across private companies and national-level cyber exercises. As CISO at Wake-up Cyber and former CISO at IPV Security, he leads strategic security transformations while also training blue-team operators at CYBERGYM and lecturing at John Bryce College. Uri regularly runs cyber tabletop exercises and delivers conference talks, bridging technical, managerial, and awareness audiences. His international consulting footprint includes projects across Africa and other regions, reflecting strong cross-cultural program delivery. Beyond executive duties, he remains actively involved in hands-on training and white-hat operations, ensuring strategy is grounded in practice.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Russian, English, Hebrew, Arabic
Github Skills (77)
python10
testing10
http10
copilot10
hashicorp10
ai10
autogpt10
artificial-intelligence10
benchmarking10
agent10
scanner9
monitoring9
secrets9
vault9
generative-ai9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cmpxchg16/gobench
Jul 2013 - Dec 2016
HTTP/HTTPS load testing and benchmarking tool
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 5 months
benchmarkingtesting
cmpxchg16/talks
Dec 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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