Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• I am honored to be part of the Briefings Review Board of the Black Hat conference circuit
• BlackHat Europe Briefings Review Board : 2021 onwards
• BlackHat Asia Briefings Review Board : 2024 onwards
• BlackHat USA Briefings Review Board : 2024 onwards
• Also supporting conference in other activities including but not limited to:
• Community Council,
• Speaker Coaching Program

Aug 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Consulting
• Grew the team from 20 - 40 consultants and setup a organizational hierarchy
• Expanded consulting in newer areas: Cloud Pen-testing and DevSecOps Consulting
• Training
• Converted fully in-person training offerings to full virtual offering.
• Introduced various gamification methods to enhance interactivity in virtual offering mode
• Started offering public trainings for the courses offered by the organization.

Aug 2015 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Consulting
• Grew the team from Employee 1 (Myself) to a 20 pen tester strong team.
• Managed operations and delivery aspect of penetration tests and other engagements of the organization
• Research and Development
• Deeply technical articles which got referred and recognized by multiple authorities.
• Various opensource tools to help the overall security community
• Trainings
• Led the course development for entire portfolio including offensive and defensive courses from scratch.
• Led and Delivered most sought after trainings at some of the biggest training platforms, including but not limited to BlackHat (USA/EU/Asia) and many more

Nov 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Remote

• I am honored to be part of Nullcon Conference Review Board Group since 2018

Oct 2018 – Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• Appointed as Secretary for Null Society.

May 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helped multiple organizations in securing the environments.
• The approach has been inclusive and collaborative, working with the organization's team.
• Instead of creating dependencies, on myself focused on building the teams by providing education and hands on environments to enhance the technical capabilities of the organization's internal teams.
• Focus Areas
• Penetration testing and internal assessment for vulnerability detection.
• Server Hardening and internal security practices to prevent attacks.

Nov 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Banglore

• Executed 50+ projects ranging from Web Apps, Network & Mobile Pen-testing
• Received multiple client appreciation for job well done
• Create Internal Documents for Mobile Security, ColdFusion Attacks and more
• Responsible for Internal Bug Tracking System & Linux Servers

May 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Responsible for Web Application Security Testing and Audit of client Portals.
• Creating Awareness about secure coding practices in various parts of organization.
• Generating bi-monthly assessment report and helping teams to close the issues.
• Responsible for assessment of automation tools, latest trends to enhance the current security testing practices, update and enhance the standards used in company
• Involved in Organizational activities including drafting RFP responses
• Running internal Newsletter on Security and Cloud related awareness.

Nov 2010 – May 2011 · 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• DataBase Log Review automation
• Automate log review process for data input set of >100 GB per month. (CSV format).
• Generating reports as per compliance requirements.
• Routine health monitoring of devices.
• Remote monitoring using self implemented MRTG + nagios solution.
• Design rules for Guardium appliances for automatic periodic alerts.
• Vulnerability Assessment Reporter (VA Reporter)
• Responsible for designing the framework of Tool
• Responsible for false positive logic building and cross referencing.
• Responsible for the deliverables preparation to the client i.e. report and presentation
• Responsible for the preparation of case study of the project to be presented to senior management
• Additional Responsibilities
• Responsible for Analysis and review of VA report, Websense (Web filter), Guardium (Db monitoring)
• Performing housekeeping of inventory management to keep it as close to live environment as possible using reverse check’s from VA Scan’s, AV log’s and other environmental inputs using
• self made scripts and automation tools.
• Initiated and successfully setup a remote health monitoring tool for 30+ appliances.

Oct 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Server Admin for TELUS DAT project.
• Installation and Setup of WAMP and LAMP Servers.
• Installation of File Sharing Server (FTP, NFS, Samba), SVN server.
• Installation of Tomcat Server.
• Regular Backup and cleanup scripts for DataBase Servers.
• Maintenance of Project Management Portal.
• In charge for process improvement initiative through Automation.
• Mailbox Automation through VBA Macro.
• Excel Sheet based information system to Web Portal using PHP.
• JavaScript Based Webpage Logic to reduce need of Excel Sheets.
• Telecom Order management System
• Working on Project Management System for DAT Project. Report generation and Project Related Planing and Scheduling Efforts.
• Security Features Implementation (SQL Injection and XSS) in Project Management System.
• Technologies Used : JSP , PHP, MySQL, AJAX, VBA.

Feb 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bhopal

• Carrier oriented Session on
• Linux apache mysql php i.e. LAMP stack
• Linux system and server administration.
• Workshops on
• Open Source
• Ethical Hacking
• Web 2.0

Jan 2006 – Feb 2022 · 16 yrs 1 mo

• This profile lists all my personal projects which i have undertaken during my personal time and most of them would be provided to community for free.
• This includes at the very least:
• 1) AndroidTamer Project (www.androidtamer.com)
• 2) Codevigilant Project (www.codevigilant.com)
• 3) Hacking Archives of India (https://hackingarchivesofindia.com)
• 4) Various whitepapers and technical blogs i write (blog.anantshri.info)
• Will keep adding more as and when required.