Isaac Evans

Founder and CEO at Semgrep

Expertise: Cybersecurity, software engineering perspectives

Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Isaac Evans is the leader of Semgrep, a company improving software security and reliability. Previously, he conducted research into binary exploitation bypasses for techniques like control-flow integrity and novel hardware defenses on new architectures like RISC-V as a researcher at the U.S. Defense Department under a SFS program and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

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Updated on August 19, 2026

When Will AI Be an Effective Cybersecurity Partner?

If we want to use LLMs as effective security measures, we need to know more about how well they work.

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Updated on June 16, 2025

Why Developer-First Security Is About Guardrails, Not Gates

Despite the promises of the “shift left,” how security is implemented is far more important than when. Our expert lays our a vision for a developer-first security posture based on guardrails, not gates..

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