Another set of EasyA hackathon winners also known as ‘gigabrains’ are headed to Y Combinator.
Artemiy Malyshau and Jeevan Juttla attended their first EasyA x Polkadot hackathon nearly two years ago, where they first started experimenting with the ideas that would later become Gecko Sec.
Today, they’ve just been accepted into the world-famous Y Combinator accelerator, which has backed some of the world’s most successful Web 3.0 companies like CoinBase, Filecoin and many more.
According to the team, Gecko Sec lets Web 3.0 developers build secure code quickly without wasting time on tools that don’t deliver results or relying on one-time human pentests (penetration tests) that quickly become outdated.
As they continue to develop their groundbreaking software, they’re working on rolling this out for teams building on Polkadot.
Writing code that is secure and safe is one of the biggest concerns for Web 3.0 developers, with many millions of dollars spent on security audits every month in Web 3.0 alone.
EasyA gigabrains Jeevan Jutla and Artemiy Malyshau credit EasyA with helping them get off the ground and giving them the inspiration to succeed.
Artemiy Malyshau, co-founder of Gecko Sec, said,
“What started off at an EasyA hackathon has led to us getting backed by Y Combinator. Big shout-out to Phil and Dom for pushing us out of our comfort zone and getting us here.”
Jeevan Juttla and Artemiy Malyshau have also got highly accomplished professional and educational backgrounds.
Jeevan Juttla, CEO and co-founder of Gecko Sec, graduated with a first class degree in electrical engineering from King’s College London.
After graduating, Jeevan was hired by the UK government’s National Cyber Security Centre to secure the British Government’s data and subsequently joined Binance as a security engineer.
Artemiy Malyshau also graduated with first class honors in electrical engineering from King’s College London, one of the UK’s top universities.
Shortly after this, he earned a master’s degree with distinction in applied computational science and engineering from Imperial College University.
GeckoSec joins a long list of EasyA hackathon winners who’ve gone on to achieve storied success in blockchain.
Other EasyA hackathon winners, like Axal founded by Harvard grad Ashlan Ahmed have been backed by a16z and are planning to announce their latest fundraising round…
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