Join the newsletter ↗Alex Chaveriat // Silk
I like figuring out how things work and what else we could do with them. That’s a big part of how I help run Tuik and decide what we build.
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Tuik Security Group ↗
Selected work
BakerStreet + Sherlock
Security findings were scattered across tools, and sharing them with clients meant putting another report together by hand.
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
A security warning was already public, but the team that needed it never saw it. I started asking how we could connect those warnings to the technology a company actually uses.
I’m building Squawk to combine external discovery with threat monitoring, including technology a team may not know it depends on.
Owned by Tuik Security GroupIn development
Personal experiments through Chaveriat Labs, alongside tools I’ve built for Tuik.
03 // Breach intelligence
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
04 // Personal art / connected home
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
05 // Application security
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
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 help them see possibilities they hadn’t considered and give their idea enough shape that they know what to do next. I want them to leave excited to try it.
As co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Tuik Security Group, I share leadership of the company and guide what we build and the services we offer.
I’ve conducted and led thousands of security assessments and penetration tests. I’ve built security teams, established application security testing programs at GE and the FAA, and helped pioneer industrial control system protocol fuzzing at GE.
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
Stories about what I’m building, what I’m wrestling with, and what I’m learning along the way.
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Latest issue // Dispatch 002
I can finally chase the ideas I used to put off. Lately, it feels like they’re chasing me.
Read the latest issuePodcast
I host Hacker Hangouts, a running conversation about security, technology, hacker culture, and the ideas we can’t stop pulling apart.
FEATURED EPISODE // October 27, 2026 // 1:10:50
AI is making software easier to take apart and rebuild. We debate software freedom, the future of subscriptions, and what happens when more people can build their own tools.
138 episodes. Live on YouTube. Audio wherever you get your podcasts.
Field captures
Photos from DEF CON and the hacker community: excellent humans, strange artifacts, and the moments between talks.
Contact
Have a problem to untangle or an idea you’re excited about? I’d like to hear it.
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Poke around. There are a few things tucked away in here. Start with neofetch or ls -la.
ALEX/OS 4.2.0 // curious kernel
Identity signal acquired: SILK // guest channel open.
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