Liran Tal I help developers ship secure software — and increasingly, help them build and use AI agents safely. I lead Developer Relations & Community at Snyk, where 7+ years of security research has turned into practical, developer-first education at scale: 43 credited CVEs and GitHub Security Advisories, 322 published articles, and 252 speaking engagements across conferences, meetups, and podcasts worldwide. I've founded and scaled programs from zero — including Snyk Advisor, which became Snyk's largest DevRel-built growth engine, and SnykLIVE, the team's first video-based community presence. My focus right now is AI and agentic security. I architected Snyk VulnBench, a benchmark for how securely AI coding agents write and remediate code; co-authored ToxicSkills, auditing ~4,000 public AI agent skills for prompt-injection and malware risk; and discovered a prompt-injection technique that could hijack Gemini CLI's agent skills undetected. That work builds on 15+ years as an open-source maintainer and Node.js security researcher. My npm packages — lockfile-lint, npq, and others — see over a million downloads a week, and I'm a 3x GitHub Star and OpenJS Foundation "Pathfinder for Security" awar
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