Alex Chaveriat // Silk

A hacker’s
approach to
innovation.

I help people get to the real problem, see new possibilities, and figure out what to try next.

Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Tuik Security Group ↗

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Illustration of Alex in his office surrounded by computers, DEF CON artifacts, coffee, and a portrait of Beaker
SUBJECT: ALEXTHREAT LEVEL: CURIOUS

Selected work

Questions
into practice.

BakerStreet + Sherlock

Security work beyond the report.

Security findings were scattered across tools, and sharing them with clients meant another manually assembled report.

I built BakerStreet to connect testing, findings, and assessment history, and Sherlock to run assessments remotely. Clients can trigger authenticated scans from their development pipelines and act on the results.

Owned by Tuik Security GroupAvailable to Tuik clients

Omenexa

Which threats affect your systems?

A security warning only helps if a team knows it applies to them.

I’m building Omenexa to connect emerging threats with a client’s technology and external exposure.

Owned by Tuik Security GroupIn development

More projects.

Personal experiments through Chaveriat Labs, alongside tools I’ve built for Tuik.

03 // Personal art / connected home

FrameMuse

Turn your photos and ideas into art for compatible Samsung Frame televisions. A mobile app with optional AI artwork creation.

Studio: Chaveriat Labs, In development

04 // Breach intelligence

ProjectMariana

Find exposed company data in breach collections and across the deep and dark web, so teams can investigate and act.

Owned by Tuik Security Group, Clients only

05 // Application security

BelchHog

Automate web application security testing through an API, with structured findings that fit into your workflow.

Owned by Tuik Security Group, In development

About Alex

Why I keep
exploring.

Alex Chaveriat speaking and gesturing at a lectern at DEF CON
Alex Chaveriat // Silk

I wanted to build a company so I could do fascinating things with fascinating people.

I love finding out what someone can’t stop thinking about. I start asking questions. One detail leads to another, and suddenly we’re looking at the problem differently. My favorite part is when they start throwing ideas back.

I build things, too. BakerStreet started with scattered security findings and too much manual reporting. I built a platform that connects the testing with the people who need the results, then kept developing it around real client requests.

I’m co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Tuik Security Group.

Along the way, I’ve built and led security teams and overseen thousands of security assessments. I helped pioneer industrial control protocol fuzzing and established application security testing programs at General Electric and the FAA.

I’ve also picked up three Black Badges: one from DEF CON and two from GrrCON. After four wins at DarkNet, DEF CON’s largest contest at the time, they put me to work on the team, running its final challenge. These days, I help lead DEF CON’s photo and video team.

After RootOccasional notes from Alex

The thinking
behind the work.

Stories about finding the real problem, trying an idea, and learning from what happens, with questions to bring to your own work.

Start here // Dispatch 001

Good technical work doesn’t speak for itself.

What changed when I got as curious about the people as I was about the exploit.

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Podcast

Hacker Hangouts.

I host Hacker Hangouts, a running conversation about security, technology, hacker culture, and the ideas we can’t stop pulling apart.

Hacker Hangouts podcast artwork

FEATURED EPISODE // August 15, 2026 // 0:51:50

Have LLMs destroyed contests? | DEF CON 34

How large language models are changing CTFs, scavenger hunts, puzzles, and the contests built to test human creativity and hacker ingenuity.

136 episodes. Live on YouTube. Audio wherever you get your podcasts.

Field captures

Community, observed.

Photos from DEF CON and the hacker community: excellent humans, strange artifacts, and the moments between talks.

Contact

What are you
working on?

Have a problem to untangle or an idea you’re excited about? I’d like to hear it.

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ALEX/OS Explore the terminal

A field terminal signed by Silk. Explore the filesystem, find the hidden artifacts, and meet the human behind the site. Start with neofetch or ls -la.

ALEX/OS // SILK FIELD TERMINAL
QUICK START

ALEX/OS 4.2.0 // curious kernel

Identity signal acquired: SILK // guest channel open.

Type “help” for the field manual. Tab completion and command history are online.