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Daniil Gusarov

Product Lead (Technical)

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<About/>

Technical Product Lead with cybersecurity background building secure SaaS platforms for global SOC operations.

Owns roadmaps, OKRs/KPIs, and launch outcomes with a focus on activation and adoption. Hands-on in technical trade-offs with engineers and experienced running audit-ready delivery with Compliance. Based in London, UK.

+8%
Revenue Uplift
700
Scaled MAU
~80%
Day-1 Adoption
Daniil Gusarov
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<Experience/>

1

Product Lead (Technical)

SecurityHQ, London
Jan 2024 – Present
  • Owned roadmap + OKRs/KPIs for SOC platform, prioritising research-led features to improve activation for a target segment.
  • Grew MAU 150 → 700 in 12 months and drove +8% revenue uplift through impact-based prioritisation.
  • Drove launches to ~80% day-1 adoption with clear success criteria, rollout readiness, and post-launch measurement.
  • Led SOC 2 Type II re-certification and partnered with Compliance to run audits and iterate controls without slowing delivery.
2

Security Software Engineer

SecurityHQ, London
Jun 2023 – Present
  • Rebuilt a global incident response platform from scratch: designed AWS foundation (S3, OpenSearch, RDS) and shipped core backend.
  • Reduced analyst workflow time 3 min → <1 s per file by delivering S3-based file management.
  • Cut P95 API latency 1.2s → 350ms by refactoring critical microservices.
  • Improved delivery safety by raising unit test coverage 18% → 60% and automating checks in CI/CD.
  • Dual-hat promotion track from Jan 2024: Product Lead ownership increased while staying hands-on to unblock delivery.
3

Cybersecurity Engineering Lead

DialogueScience, Moscow
Apr 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Led and aligned a 4-engineer team to company strategy; started professional services engagements and converted the team from cost to a revenue center.
  • Delivered 3 security systems integration projects impacting 500k+ users and critical systems.
  • Guided clients to first-pass PCI-DSS, FSTEK & FSB certifications.
  • Developed 120+ custom SIEM correlation rules from scratch to extend cybersecurity coverage to clients' bespoke systems.
  • Coordinated six parallel security system deployments with 100% on-time delivery.
  • Wrote 20+ security config verification scripts (100+ controls) aligned to PCI-DSS using Ruby and Chef InSpec enabling automated standard alignment checks for clients' systems.
4

Cybersecurity Engineer

Wargaming, Moscow
Dec 2022 – Mar 2023
  • Resolved average of 3 major security incidents daily with zero SLA breaches.
  • Developed MS Teams chatbot slashed alert reaction time from 3 min to <1 min for on-call analysts.
  • Tuned ELK pipelines, cutting alert noise by 7%.
  • Participated in red-team exercises uncovering 17 critical vulnerabilities remediated within SLA.
5

Cybersecurity Engineer

Rakasta, Moscow
Jun 2021 – Dec 2021
  • Deployed Cisco FTD HA cluster supporting 30k concurrent sessions with minimal downtime.
  • Developed and productionized a global alert forwarding service for FortiSIEM & Telegram.
6

Automation Engineer & System Administrator

ITHUB Group, Moscow
Dec 2018 – Jun 2021
  • Automated certificate issuance run 15k+ times, saving 20h monthly admin effort.
  • Assisted rewrite of student-management platform workflows, improving data accuracy.
  • Automated vulnerability management cutting critical patch SLA from 14 to 2 days (Ansible + WSUS).
  • Maintained 99.95% uptime for 120+ servers and PCs.
7

IT Teacher & Mentor

ITHUB College, Moscow
Jun 2021 – Dec 2021
  • Mentored and taught 100+ students Linux Systems Administration and Networking courses, now employed at Meta, Sber, Yandex, Tinkoff and others.
  • Achieved 92% average certification pass rate across cohorts.

<Education & Achievements/>

Education

  • BSc Computer Science (Security)
    IT HUB Moscow (2017–2021)
  • BSc Business Management
    MIRBIS Moscow (2023–2026, Remote)

Certifications

  • AWS - Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified - Security
  • Microsoft Certified - Python
  • Barracuda WAF
  • Microsoft Office Specialist - Excel, PowerPoint, Word
  • Positive Technologies - PT Application Inspector (SAST)
  • Positive Technologies - PT SIEM
  • IBM - QRadar Resilient (SOAR)

Awards

  • 1st place - Yandex Skills Hackathon 2021
  • 1st place - Make-IT Digitalante 2022
  • 2nd place (out of 163) - BlackHat Europe 2024 (Web Pentest)
  • 3rd place - Urban.Tech.Moscow 2020

<Skills & Stack/>

Security

SIEM (FortiSIEM, ELK/OpenSearch)SOARSGRCPAMWAFEDRFortiGate NGFWIncident ResponseVulnerability ManagementLinuxMacOSWindowsOS HardeningComputer Networking

Software Engineering

PythonRubyJSPHPFastAPISQLAlchemySQLModelAlembicPydanticMicrosoft GraphDockerAWSKubernetes

Product & Engineering Management

JiraConfluenceAutomationAgile / ScrumTechnical Specs / RequirementsLeadershipMarket ResearchBI (PowerBI)DataDog RUM Analytics

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