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S11 E25: The $13m Bootstrapped Shield: Moving Past Broken Point Scanners to Unified, Continuous Exposure Management with Chris Wallis, Founder & CEO of Intruder episode artwork

Nov 11, 2025 20 min

S11 E25: The $13m Bootstrapped Shield: Moving Past Broken Point Scanners to Unified, Continuous Exposure Management with Chris Wallis, Founder & CEO of Intruder

from Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders Hosted by Noah Labhart | Podcast for Technical Founders & Startups

Chris Wallis lives in London, and grew up on a farm in the UK. He was the kid running around the countryside climbing trees - until his parents bought a computer when he was 15. Past that point, he didn't leave the house much, learning to code and digging into ethical hacking. Outside of tech, he is into tennis, swimming, alpine skiing and surfing. He finds himself in phases with these sports, and rotates them often. In the past, Chris was an ethical hacker, and spent a long time busting into big name systems. Eventually, he moved into one of those companies - and he realized that the tooling out there to discover attack surface weaknesses were lagging. He decided to build a platform that got the job done. This is the creation story of Intruder. Sponsors Vention CodeCrafters helps you become a better engineer by building real-world, production-grade projects. Learn hands-on by creating your own Git, Redis, HTTP server, SQLite, or DNS server from scratch. Sign up for free today using this link and enjoy 40% off. Full Scale Paddle.com Sema Software PropelAuth Postman Meilisearch Links https://www.intruder.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-wallis/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Our Sponsors:

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Chris Wallis lives in London, and grew up on a farm in the UK. He was the kid running around the countryside climbing trees - until his parents bought a computer when he was 15. Past that point, he didn't leave the house much, learning to code and digging into ethical hacking. Outside of tech, he is into tennis, swimming, alpine skiing and surfing. He finds himself in phases with these sports, and rotates them often. In the past, Chris was an ethical hacker, and spent a long time busting into big name systems. Eventually, he moved into one of those companies - and he realized that the tooling out there to discover attack surface weaknesses were lagging. He decided to build a platform that got the job done. This is the creation story of Intruder. Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Our Sponsors:

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