# Vlad Matsiiako

> Vlad Matsiiako is the Ukrainian-born co-founder and CEO of Infisical, the open-source secrets, certificate, and access management platform that processes well over 100 million secrets a day. After studying in the Netherlands, working as one of the first data scientists at bunq, picking up a master's at Cornell, and a stint at Figma, he teamed up with two Cornell friends, cycled through ideas like a VR marketplace, and finally bet on the unglamorous problem that bites every engineer: leaked API keys and sprawling .env files. Infisical went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch, open-sourced its code to earn developer trust, and raised a $16M Series A led by Elad Gil in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Infisical
- **Organizations:** Infisical, Y Combinator (W23)
- **From:** Ukraine
- **Nationality:** Ukrainian
- **Education:** MEng, Operations Research & Information Engineering, Cornell University, Undergraduate, Economics & Econometrics, University in the Netherlands
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Infisical, the #1 open-source secret management platform, Grew Infisical to process over 100 million secrets per day, Raised $16M Series A led by Elad Gil; total funding ~$18.9M

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — One of the first data scientists at bunq (Netherlands neobank)
- **Pre-Infisical** — Engineering experience at Figma
- **2022** — Co-founded Infisical with Tony Dang and Maidul Islam
- **2023** — Infisical joins Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch; open-sources the product
- **2025** — Infisical raises $16M Series A led by Elad Gil

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Infisical, the #1 open-source secret management platform
- Grew Infisical to process over 100 million secrets per day
- Raised $16M Series A led by Elad Gil; total funding ~$18.9M
- 40M+ downloads in a single year and 20x year-over-year revenue growth
- Reached cash-flow positive with customers including Hugging Face, Lucid, and LG
- Infisical surpassed 20k+ GitHub stars, ranking among the top security repos

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Infisical announced a $16M Series A led by Elad Gil to safeguard secrets and identities.
- **2025** — Infisical expanded beyond developer secrets into certificate management and SSH key management, targeting AI agent workloads.

## Links

- Website: https://infisical.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmatsiiako/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/matsiiako
- GitHub: https://github.com/vmatsiiako

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Last updated: 2026-06-04