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Adam Nygate

Adam Nygate

AI/ML security product leader; founder of huntr and 418sec

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Seattle, Washington
Joined October 2025
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Summary

Founder and operator of community-driven open-source security initiatives — Adam co-founded 418sec and launched huntr (a bug-bounty and triage platform) to incentivize and scale vulnerability discovery and remediation across the open-source ecosystem. Under his leadership huntr grew to thousands of researchers and became a significant CNA contributor for CVEs. github+2
Product and community leader in MLSecOps — at Protect AI Adam led product work for threat research and helped pivot huntr toward AI/ML-focused bug-hunting and model-supply-chain protections; he actively contributes public educational content (podcasts, talks, blog posts) about ML security. protectai+2
Technical background in application security and security architecture — Adam’s career includes hands-on development and security-architecture roles (Wisenet, GDS, BJSS) before moving into founding and product leadership; this blend gives him practical experience across developer-facing security tooling, consulting and platform building. linkedin+1
Public-facing advocate and communicator — he publishes blog posts, speaks at industry events, appears on MLSecOps and other podcasts, and maintains an active social presence (X/Twitter), consistently promoting open-source security and MLSecOps best practices. nygate+2

Work

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Writing

Machine Learning Models: A New Attack Vector for an Old Exploit

April 16, 2025

Discussion of ML-specific security risks and examples of how classic vulnerabilities can become ML attack vectors; part of Protect AI's thought leadership content.

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Supporting the safe and secure usage of the world's largest AI/ML Model Repository

October 25, 2024

A Protect AI blog post about MLSecOps and partnerships to secure model repositories and the AI/ML supply chain.

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Exploring AI/ML Security Risks (MLSecOps Podcast — Black Hat 2023)

August 1, 2023

Podcast interview discussing the origins of huntr, scaling an OSS security community, and the transition of huntr to an AI/ML-focused platform under Protect AI.

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How a startup wants to help secure the open source ecosystem with huntr, a bug bounty board

March 25, 2020

Guest post (AWS Open Source Blog) explaining huntr's mission, architecture and approach to incentivising security work across the open-source ecosystem.

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Hobbies

Open-source advocacy and community building (hacker/researcher community management) huntr+1

Web3 / crypto interest (public handle includes .eth) x

Notes

PMPavlos Morossaid
ANAdam Nygate
has played a pivotal role in turning AI technologies into successful products.

Nov 12, 2025

PMPavlos Morossaid that if they were looking for advice on building and exiting a security startup,
ANAdam Nygate
would be someone they'd reach out to first.

Sep 22, 2025