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Securing the
agentic future.

I research emerging threats and build open-source defenses for AI agents, the software they write, and the tools they trust.

Software engineer, security researcher, and open-source maintainer.
Leading Developer Relations at Snyk.

Research

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My work spans AI agents, developer tooling, and software supply chain security: co-authored papers, vulnerability disclosures, patents, and research that became practical defenses.

October 2026 · arXiv preprint

How Deterministic SAST and AI Security Agents Divide the Work: Coverage, Harness Policy and Cost in Snyk VulnBench 2.0

An evaluation of deterministic SAST and AI security agents on 108 vulnerabilities across 20 open-source applications, examining coverage, harness policy, and cost. Snyk Code and Claude Code’s strongest evaluated configuration together covered 101 of 108 vulnerabilities.

Liran Tal, Chris Liu, Charlotte Fereday, Sebastian Roth, and Brian Clark

Tools & resources I maintain

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lockfile-lint

Supply chain security

Lint lockfiles for trusted registries and protect against lockfile injection.

npq

Developer tooling

Check package health and security signals before installing npm dependencies.

Speaking

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Liran Tal presenting at JSNation US 2025

224 talks.
21 countries.

Plenty of live hacking. I bring real-world attacks and practical defenses to conferences, meetups, and workshops. AI security, Node.js, and the software supply chain, explained through code.

Open source

All projects on GitHub
npm downloads
4.27M

5 selected maintained packages

GitHub stars
13,975

6 featured repositories

GitHub forks
763

6 featured repositories

npm downloads

Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026. Package downloads, not unique developers; totals include dependency installs.

Packages & source counts

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GitHub stars & forks

GitHub snapshot: Oct 20, 2026. Stars and forks across the six featured repositories, not unique people or all my projects.

Repositories & source counts

lockfile-lint

Supply chain security

Lint lockfiles for trusted registries and protect against lockfile injection.

npq

Developer tooling

Check package health and security signals before installing npm dependencies.

dockly

Developer tooling

An interactive terminal interface for managing Docker containers and services.

anti-trojan-source

Code security

Detect bidirectional Unicode characters used to disguise malicious source code.

From the community

Better together.

“Some people talk about AppSec (me) and some people really dig in and do the work (you). I’m a big fan.”
— by Jim Manico, OWASP Leader · Original post
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— by Luciano Mammino, Author of Node.js Design Patterns · Original post
“This has become my primary source for learning docker with node. Thanks for sharing these 💝”
— by Dev Sharma, Software Developer · Original post
“This is one of the best guides I’ve seen on this topic, really cool stuff.”
— by Jose Aguinaga, Head of Engineering at HOPR · Original post

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