Mikhail Shcherbakov came to security from enterprise app development. The tendency is to push it as far as you can… He is now doing a Ph.D. in Language-Based Security after 10+ years of experience in the industry. He participated in Microsoft, GitHub, and open-source bug bounty programs, found vulnerabilities in popular products, and helped to fix them. Before starting a Ph.D. program, he focused on .NET and web security, gave talks at conferences, organized IT meetups, and got the Microsoft MVP Award in 2016 – 2018. Mikhail is an author of commercial static analysis tools and continues research in program analysis.