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Lawrence Xu

SINGAPORE

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder, CEO

TrustAI PTE LTD
06.2024 - Current
  • Developing GenAI security software for enterprises (B2B SaaS/AI). Secured a $10M seed round investment within 3 months.
  • The product now serves 10+ enterprise clients and over 200 individual users.

Co-Founder, CTO

StarCross Technology
03.2021 - 06.2024
  • Built AI solutions for cybersecurity products, grew the company from 0 to 40M AR within 3 years, achieve $60M valuation.
  • Raised $20M over 4 rounds of investment from Cyzone, Seashell Capital, CBC Capital, and AppleFunds bygenerating 30x annual revenue (from $150K to $4M) in 2 years.
  • Led a team of over 50 in product GTM and R&D, launched three innovative products, obtained 20+ patents, and 3 papers on CS/EE.
  • Achievements include winning the ISC Innovation Sandbox, being a top ten finalist in the Tencent Entrepreneurship Competition, and recognition as a Beijing Specialized Technology Enterprise.
  • Received the Hurun Under 30 and CYzone China Under 30 Outstanding Entrepreneur awards.

Senior Security Engineer

Alibaba Inc
07.2017 - 03.2021
  • Designed and developed multiple cloud security SaaS products, and used AI/ML to serve over 10,000 SME clients.
  • Led and grew Alibaba Cloud's container security product from 0 to 60M SaaS ARR within one year
  • Research published at global top tech and academic conferences like Blackhat, Bluehat, ISC, Defcon, HITB, RAID and IJCAI.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Security

Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing, China
06-2017

publications

  • Beyond REST: Introducing APIF for Comprehensive API Vulnerability Fuzzing, RAID 24', Milan Italy · Jul 28, 2024.
  • Enterprise Application Data Flow Monitoring and Governance, ISC Beijing 2023 · Jul 16, 2023.
  • Building Cloud-Native Container Security Defense Systems, Kubernetes Community Days Beijing 2021 · Dec 12, 2021.
  • CDK: Zero Dependency Container Penetration Toolkit, BlackHat Asia 2021 Arsenal · Aug 28, 2021.
  • Attack Cloud Native Kubernetes, HITB SecConf 2021 Amsterdam · Jun 15, 2021.
  • Win the 0-Day Racing Game Against Botnet on Public Cloud, BlackHat Asia 2020 · Oct 4, 2020.
  • Hunting zero-days for millions of websites on Alibaba Cloud, XCon 2019 · Aug 2, 2019.
  • Enhance Security Awareness with Data Mining, BlueHat Shanghai 2019 · Jun 12, 2019.
  • Webshell Detection via Attention-Based Opcode Sequence Classification, AIBS@IJCAI-19, Macao CN, 2019 · Mar 24, 2019

Timeline

Founder, CEO

TrustAI PTE LTD
06.2024 - Current

Co-Founder, CTO

StarCross Technology
03.2021 - 06.2024

Senior Security Engineer

Alibaba Inc
07.2017 - 03.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Security

Beijing Jiaotong University

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