Grigory Emelianov

Grigory Emelianov is Co-Founder and CTO at Secfix, a Munich-based cybersecurity compliance automation platform helping SMBs achieve ISO 27001, GDPR, SOC 2, and TISAX certifications up to 90% faster. Secfix has raised $17M in total funding and serves hundreds of customers across 15+ European countries.
Grigory studied at Technical University of Munich and brings over 10 years of experience developing secure, enterprise-grade SaaS infrastructure from roles at Amazon and MAN Truck & Bus. He also participated in the XPRENEURS incubator for high-tech startups and founded his first company at age 18 in Moscow while studying physics.
Grigory co-founded requestee in 2020, a marketplace for ethical hackers, which later pivoted to become Secfix in September 2021 after identifying strong customer demand for ISO 27001 certification automation. He is a passionate surfer and drummer who embraces a creative, experimental approach to building products.
Under Grigory's technical leadership, Secfix developed an AI-native platform that integrates with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, automating compliance workflows and achieving a 100% audit success rate. The company partnered with Amazon to develop free security awareness training for customers.
Secfix has achieved 90% automation for most compliance frameworks, reducing certification timelines from 12-18 months to just weeks and saving C-level personnel and engineering teams hundreds of hours. The platform accelerates sales cycles by 3x and cuts security questionnaire response time by 50%.