Founder Profile
Guy Podjarny
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Guy Podjarny?
Guy Podjarny is a founder of Snyk, which was founded in 2015 with Assaf Hefetz and Danny Grander.
- Company founded
- Snyk
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Assaf Hefetz and Danny Grander
Background
Before Snyk, Guy Podjarny worked in application security at Watchfire (later part of IBM), co-founded web-performance company Blaze, which Akamai acquired in 2012, and then served as a CTO at Akamai.
Founding Story
Guy Podjarny co-founded Snyk in 2015 and was its CEO until July 2019, when Peter McKay took over and Podjarny became president and chairman. He later founded AI-native software development startup Tessl. He stepped off Snyk's board in January 2025 and was reappointed a director in March 2026, returning as chairman during the 2026 leadership change. Guy Podjarny was born in 1981.
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