Somdev Sangwan

AI Researcher

India8 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 8 years of experience in cybersecurity and AI.
  • Developed multiple popular security tools.
  • Expert in solving novel cybersecurity problems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on tool development and vulnerability assessment.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecurityApplication SecurityVulnerability AssessmentNetwork Security

Other Skills

AI-generated content detectionFramework developmentOpen source contributionsAIContent DetectionPentestingAttack Surface ManagementReal-time scanningResearch publicationCredential ScanningNetwork ScanningReport GenerationTool developmentWeb SecurityGo (Programming Language)

About

8 years in cyber security (websec & AI); Developed multiple popular security tools; Knows 5+ programming languages; Really good at solving novel problems

Experience

Self-employed

Security Researcher

Feb 2023 โ€“ Present ยท 3 yrs 1 mo

  • ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค (only major projects listed below)
  • Developed an AI-generated content detector for a government agency
  • Wrote a framework to allow various third-party scanners to talk to each other, saving valuable time for a pentesting firm
  • ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค: uro, smap, wappalyzer-next, parth etc. (See: https://github.com/s0md3v)
  • ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก: Markov Chains based directory fuzzing
AI-generated content detectionFramework developmentOpen source contributionsCybersecurityApplication Security

Redhunt labs

Senior Security Researcher

Jan 2020 โ€“ Jan 2023 ยท 3 yrs

  • R&D for an ASM (Attack Sufrace Management) SaaS product
  • Developed a tool to scan all github commits in real-time with a novel credential scanning algorithm
  • Created a tool to scan the entire IPv4 space and published security postures reports for the community
  • Performed and published research for the company's blog
Attack Surface ManagementReal-time scanningResearch publicationCybersecurityVulnerability Assessment

Self-employed

Security Researcher

Apr 2017 โ€“ Jan 2020 ยท 2 yrs 9 mos

  • - Developed XSStrike, Photon, Arjun and many other industry-standard tools for cyber security (See: https://github.com/s0md3v)
Tool developmentOpen source contributionsCybersecurityApplication Security

Education

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Science

Jan 2015 โ€“ Jan 2019

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