Nishant Das Patnaik

About Me

Security engineering, to me, is not about making a compromise impossible. The goal is to make it difficult, expensive & noisy. I have pentested without expensive softwares, learnt technologies/protocols without formal documentation & built prototypes faster than expected. I'm happy when I can develop my own solutions, find the source of the problem or give a detailed fix or guidance to the right person. I'm happier when I can enable someone else to do the same.

What I Do

Public Speaker

  • BlackHat Europe 2016, London
  • BlackHat USA 2016, Las Vegas
  • BlackHat USA 2013, Las Vegas
  • NullCon Goa 2012
  • BarCamp Chennai 2011

Bug Bounty

  • Facebook
  • Mozilla
  • Atlassian
  • Intuit
  • Pinterest
  • Foursquare
  • eBay
  • Nokia
  • Cleartrip
  • Domino's Pizza

Open Source Projects

  • tweezr
  • AppMon
  • Raptor
  • JSPrime
  • Ra.2

Textbook Publications

    Author
  • Software Hacking
  • Technical Reviewer
  • iOS Penetration Testing
  • Kali Linux Intrusion & Exploitation Cookbook
  • Kali Linux Cookbook (2nd Edition)

Employers so far

My Interests

Flight Simulators

Piano Covers

Food Recipes

Resume

Education

2010
Biju Patnaik University of Technology

B.Tech: Computer Science & Engineering

Software Programming, Computer Networks, Databases, OS Architecture, Hardware Architecture, Electronic Circuits etc.

2006
CBSE

AISSCE

Science (Physics, Chemistry), Maths, English, Software Programming

Experience

2015 - Current
eBay

Sr. Staff Security Engineer

2014 - 2015
InMobi

Security Lead

2011 - 2014
Yahoo!

Senior Paranoid

2010 - 2011
PayPal

Security Analyst

Design Skills

Defensive Systems Prototyping

95%

DevSecOps

75%

Threat Modeling

75%

Secure Code Review

75%

Penetration Testing

70%

User Interface

80%

Coding Skills

nodejs

95%

Browser DOM API

85%

Python

75%

Puppeteer

90%

Frida

75%

HTML/CSS

90%

Hands-on

  • Applied Cryptography
  • iOS Security
  • Java
  • Android Security
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • memcached
  • Docker Swarm
  • Elasicsearch
  • Filebeat
  • Logstash
  • MongoDB
  • Flask
  • MySQL
  • nginx
  • Jenkins
  • Static Analysis

Blog

Contact

San Jose

650-xxx-xxxx

nishant.dp@

Open to ideas