Built by engineers who got tired of chasing noise.
Security tooling has a trust problem — and it's not a tool problem, it's a precision problem. Developers have been trained to ignore scanner output because most of it is noise. We started Patchlynx in 2025 to fix that. Not by adding more detection rules, but by answering the one question advisory-only tools never ask: is this CVE actually reachable in my code?
Advisory-only SCA tools are honest about what CVEs exist in your dependency tree. They're not honest about which ones can actually harm you. The result: teams patch hundreds of packages that would never be exploited, miss the one that would, and eventually start muting the scanner entirely. We built Patchlynx because we watched that happen and knew the root cause wasn't developer carelessness — it was that the alerts weren't trustworthy.
What we believe
Precision over volume
One reachable CVE surfaced with call chain evidence is worth more than 300 advisory matches. We measure ourselves by the signal-to-noise ratio of our output, not the count of findings.
Developer-first, not CISO-first
Security tooling that only the AppSec team understands doesn't secure anything. Every feature we ship is designed for the developer making the PR — the person who can actually fix the problem.
Evidence over assertion
We show the full call chain, not just the severity verdict. Every finding is reproducible — you can trace the path from your entry point to the vulnerable function yourself. We don't ask you to trust the black box.
Analysis must fit in CI
Security that blocks your pipeline for 10 minutes gets disabled. We target sub-10-second verdicts on PR lockfile diffs. If Patchlynx can't fit inside your existing CI budget, we haven't solved the right problem.
The people behind Patchlynx
Derek Voss
Before founding Patchlynx, Derek spent five years as an application security engineer at a cloud infrastructure company in Seattle, where he was responsible for triage of the internal dependency vulnerability program. He evaluated every major SCA tool on the market and kept hitting the same wall: the false positive rate made the alerts unactionable. Patchlynx started as an internal prototype to answer one question — is this CVE actually reachable in our codebase? The answer changed how his team thought about dependency security, and eventually became this company.
Priya Nair
Priya previously built static analysis and program analysis tooling at a developer productivity platform. Her background is in compiler theory and data flow analysis — specifically inter-procedural call graph construction across module boundaries. She designed Patchlynx's reachability engine from the ground up and sets the technical direction for language support and analysis precision.
Sam Kowalski
Sam led platform engineering at a fintech company where he was responsible for the CI/CD infrastructure at scale. He brought deep knowledge of ephemeral compute, pipeline performance, and how security tooling integrates (or fails to integrate) into high-velocity engineering workflows. At Patchlynx, he's the reason the reachability pipeline fits inside a PR's CI budget.
Interested in working on dependency security at depth?
We're a focused team. If you care about program analysis, static call graph construction, or building developer tooling that engineers actually trust — email us at [email protected].
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