Shahar Shechter

Shahar Shechter is a vulnerability researcher at Cyera, specializing in reverse engineering, low-level systems development, and applied cryptography, with additional experience in model training and data science. He served in the IDF's Unit 81 and Unit 8200, where his R&D work in cyber and reverse engineering contributed to a project recognized with the Israel Defense Prize. He holds a double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, earned with honors while working in data science at the startup SkylineAI. He later spent three years at Argus (later PlaxidityX) researching vehicle security vulnerabilities, presenting at the JSAE 2023 conference in Japan, followed by a year at Okta. He recently completed a master's degree in computer science at Tel Aviv University, focused on cryptography, specifically multi-party computation and private information retrieval, publishing two papers and presenting at IACR Crypto 2026, with his thesis defense remaining as the final step.