Shivam Verma — Co-Founder

🔐 Is your startup or business exposed to cyber threats — or just hoping nothing goes wrong? I help US, European, and Australian startups, SaaS companies, and enterprises identify and eliminate critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. With 5+ years of hands-on experience, 100+ audits completed, and $50K+ revenue generated through international consulting — I deliver real results, not just compliance checkboxes. I'm also the Founder & Co-Founder of HackingNerds — a cybersecurity education & consulting platform I co-built from the ground up in 2020. I now lead it solo, having trained 500+ professionals globally and served 25+ international B2B clients. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ WHAT I DO FOR CLIENTS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Remote Penetration Testing & VAPT (Web, Mobile, API, Cloud) ✅ Compliance Audits: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST ✅ Fractional CISO Advisor (for startups without a full-time CISO) ✅ Cloud Security Audits (AWS, Azure, GCP) ✅ Vulnerability Management Programs (Qualys Certified) ✅ Enterprise Risk Assessments & Remediation Strategy ✅ Investor Security Due Diligence (Pre-Series A/B/C) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 PROVEN RESULTS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 300+ vulnerabilities identified and remediated across 100+ enterprise audits • 60%+ reduction in critical vulnerabilities for government infrastructure • 70%+ average reduction in client security incidents • $50K+ revenue generated through international cybersecurity consulting • Clients across the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 CERTIFICATIONS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CEH | CCA | AWS Security | eWPTXv2 | ISO/IEC 27001 | Qualys MDR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 WHO I WORK WITH: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Startups (Pre-Series A/B/C investor security due diligence) • Healthcare companies (HIPAA compliance & audits) • Financial Services (PCI-DSS penetration testing) • SaaS & Tech Companies (SOC 2, AWS security) • Government Contractors (NIST, ISO 27001 compliance) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 AVAILABILITY: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 100% Remote | EST, PST, MT, CET, IST time zones • Available for short-term audits, long-term retainers & Fractional CISO roles • 📅 Book a FREE 15-minute discovery call today 📩 DM me or click "Book an appointment" to get started.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Consultant specializing in vulnerability management and compliance audits for enterprises.

Location: Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Experience: 5 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Vulnerability Assessment And Penetration Testing (vapt)
Compliance Audits
Cybersecurity Education
Consulting
Vulnerability Assessment

Career Highlights

Over 100 audits completed with significant vulnerability reductions
Trained 500+ cybersecurity professionals globally
Generated $50K+ revenue through international consulting

Work Experience

Government of Uttarakhand

Cyber Security Consultant (1 yr)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Module leader (3 mos)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Security Engineer (3 yrs 10 mos)

HackingNerds

Founder & Co-Founder (5 yrs 10 mos)

Bulwark CyberX LLP

Infosec Intern (6 mos)

Government of India

Forensic Investigator (1 mo)

Cyber Ninjas

Linux Administrator (5 mos)

Indian Railways

Commuication (2 mos)

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology at PSIT Kanpur (Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology)

Shivam Verma

Co-Founder

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India5 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 100 audits completed with significant vulnerability reductions
Trained 500+ cybersecurity professionals globally
Generated $50K+ revenue through international consulting

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Consultant specializing in vulnerability management and compliance audits for enterprises.

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Skills

Core Skills

Vulnerability Assessment And Penetration Testing (vapt)Compliance AuditsCybersecurity EducationConsultingVulnerability Assessment

Other Skills

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)Remediation & PatchAWS SecurityPenetration TestingNISTSOC 2Ethical HackingU.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)Application SecurityRed TeamingInformation Security ConsultingSecurity AuditsGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)CybersecurityNetwork Security

About

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Government of uttarakhand

Cyber Security Consultant

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Dehradun · On-site

Led end-to-end vulnerability management program fo state-level government infrastructure, reducing criical & high vulnerabilities by 60%+ across 200+ moniored assets within 6 months.
Conducted 15+ penetrtion tests (web, mobile, API, network) for governmen applications, identifying and remediating 300+ vulnrabilities before production deployment.
Delivere compliance audits against GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIS rameworks, achieving 100% audit pass rate for all goernment departments assessed.
Built and managed a5-person security team, improving patch remediation LA by 40% by implementing automated CVSS-based risk scoring and ticketing workflows.
Avalable for remote consulting engagements with US, EU,UK, Canada, and Australian enterprises. Expertise: CH, CCNA, AWS Security, VAPT, Fractional CISO advisor.

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)Remediation & PatchAWS SecurityPenetration TestingNIST+9

Ministry of electronics and information technology

Module leader

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Conducted enterprise-scale vulnerability assessments and penetration tests for government and private-sector organizations.
Identified and reported critical security flaws, contributing to a ~50% improvement in overall security posture for multiple clients.
Performed manual and automated vulnerability validation, reducing false positives and improving remediation accuracy.
Led risk-based reporting, mapping vulnerabilities to business impact and remediation priority.
Worked on Zero Day Research and Remediation

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

Security Engineer

Mar 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Conduct Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) on web, mobile, and SCADA systems.
Perform hardware security assessments and develop risk mitigation strategies.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to remediate security issues and improve security posture.
Delivered security workshops and training for students and staff.

Penetration TestingVulnerability Assessment

Hackingnerds

Founder & Co-Founder

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · remote · Remote

Co-founded HackingNerds — a cybersecurity education& consulting platform — alongside a partner who has ince moved on. I now lead the venture solo as the soe active Founder, continuing to grow and deliver vale to clients and learners worldwide.
Co-founded te platform from scratch in 2020 with a shared visionof making elite cybersecurity education and consulting accessible globall.
As the sole remaining Founder, I oversee all opeations — from course development and client consultig to community growth and business strategy.
Traind 500+ cybersecurity professionals across India, US,UK, Canada, EU & Australia in Penetration Testing, VPT, and Ethical Hacking — 4.8/5 average student ratig.
Generated $50K+ in revenue through 10+ cybersecrity courses and B2B remote security consulting for 5+ international clients.
Delivered remote VAPT, cmpliance audits (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 NIST), and cloud security assessments (AWS, Azure, CP) to enterprises across 8 countries.
Reduced clint security incident rates by 70%+ on average throug proactive vulnerability identification and remediaton programs tailored for startups and SMBs.
ScaledHackingNerds to 13,000+ LinkedIn followers and 2,000+ monthly active learners.

Remediation & PatchAWS SecurityPenetration TestingNISTSOC 2Ethical Hacking+6

Bulwark cyberx llp

Infosec Intern

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 · 6 mos · Jaipur Area, India

Supported vulnerability assessments and threat hunting activities using OSINT techniques.
Helped identify early-stage risks, contributing to a ~50% reduction in incident detection and response time.

Government of india

Forensic Investigator

Jan 2019 – Feb 2019 · 1 mo · Auraiya Area, India

Assisted in digital forensics investigations using Autopsy and FTK Imager.
Supported investigations involving large-scale cyber fraud (₹200Cr+), contributing to evidence analysis and case resolution