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Lawrence Xu

San Jose

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder & CEO

CertainAI Inc.
San Francisco
10.2024 - Current
  • Developed AI safety software for enterprises, enhancing B2B SaaS solutions.
  • Secured $1.2M in pre-seed funding through Antler and University of Chicago endorsement.
  • Expanded product reach to over 10 enterprise clients and 200 individual users.

Co-Founder & CTO

StarCross Technology
Beijing
03.2021 - 06.2024
  • Built AI-driven cybersecurity solutions for enterprises (B2B - Cybersecurity).
  • Led 50+ team in GTM and R&D, launched 3 innovative products, secured 20+ patents, and published 3 papers.
  • Scaled company from 0 to $10M AR in 3 years, reaching a $60M valuation.
  • Raised $20M across 4 investment rounds by increasing revenue 30x ($150K to $4M) in 2 years.
  • Champion of ISC Innovation Sandbox, top 10 finalist in Tencent Entrepreneurship Competition, recognized as a Beijing Specialized Tech Enterprise.
  • Awarded Hurun U30 and Cyzone China 30 Under 30 Outstanding Entrepreneurs.

Senior Security Engineer

Alibaba Inc
Hangzhou
07.2017 - 03.2021
  • Designed and developed AI/ML-powered cloud security products, serving 10,000+ SME clients.
  • Led the growth of Alibaba Cloud's container security product from inception to $60M in SaaS ARR within one year.
  • Published research at top conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, HITB, and IJCAI.
  • Co-founded the globally ranked 4th CTF hacking team (r3kapig), with two appearances in the DEFCON finals (the 'Oscars' of hacker).

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing, China
06.2017

Publications

  • Beyond REST: Introducing APIF for Comprehensive API Vulnerability Fuzzing, RAID 24, Milan, Italy, 07/01/24
  • Enterprise Application Data Flow Monitoring and Governance, ISC Beijing, 07/16/23
  • Building Cloud-Native Container Security Defense Systems, Kubernetes Community Days Beijing, 12/12/21
  • CDK: Zero Dependency Container Penetration Toolkit, BlackHat Asia 2021 Arsenal, 08/28/21
  • Attack Cloud Native Kubernetes, HITB SecConf 2021, Amsterdam, 06/15/21
  • Win the 0-Day Racing Game Against Botnet on Public Cloud, BlackHat Asia 2020, 10/04/20
  • Hunting zero-days for millions of websites on Alibaba Cloud, XCon 2019, 08/02/19
  • Enhance Security Awareness with Data Mining, BlueHat Shanghai 2019, 06/12/19
  • Webshell Detection via Attention-Based Opcode Sequence Classification, AIBS@IJCAI-19, Macao CN, 03/24/19

Timeline

Founder & CEO

CertainAI Inc.
10.2024 - Current

Co-Founder & CTO

StarCross Technology
03.2021 - 06.2024

Senior Security Engineer

Alibaba Inc
07.2017 - 03.2021

Bachelor of Engineering -

Beijing Jiaotong University

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